English / Map Form: Gollanhead
Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form
Location: Ardersier
Post Town: Ardersier
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Gollanhead
Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form
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Gollan is Scots for a daisy it is also in the name Gollanfield over the strait near Ardersier, though cf Cairn Gollan. It is off Gowanbrae and it is perhaps siginificant that gowan is a dialectal variant of gollan.
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If the map name is in Standard Scots English or Scots with no Gaelic form in evidence, the name is left untranslated even if a parallel exists.
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