English / Map Form: Glenashdale
Gaelic Form: Gleann Èasdail
Post Town: ISLE OF ARRAN
Postcode area: KA27
County: Ayrshire
Local Authority: North Ayrshire
English / Map Form: Glenashdale
Gaelic Form: Gleann Èasdail
Language Notes
Element Meaning
G nom. sg. gleann, masc. ‘glen’ + en gen. sg. G Èasdal (ON obscure element + ON dalr, masc. ‘valley’)
Sources
Glenasdasdaill 1609 Retours (Bute) 18
Gleann Èasdail (Àsdail?) Robertson Collection MS291, 5v
askr-dalr: Fraser 1999, 79
Additional Information
See Fraser for old forms. This may have the same derivation as Easdale (Easdail) but with a long vowel, which sporadically occurs in stressed vowels in Arran Gaelic.
