English / Map Form: Gourock
Gaelic Form: Gurraig
Location: Inverclyde
Post Town: GOUROCK
County: Renfrewshire
Local Authority: Inverclyde
English / Map Form: Gourock
Gaelic Form: Gurraig
Language Notes
Element Meaning
G guireag ~ pimple, i.e. the hill above the town
Sources
Gorag no Gūrag: Macintyre 1810
Goraig, guReg’: Dieckhoff
Gòraig (in Arran Gaelic): Robertson [o also has a breve]
air Gouraig: An t-Òranaiche 1879, 35
Gourock may be guireoc, guireag, a pimple, with reference to the rounded hillocks there.: Watson 1926, 201
aig Gurag: Gaelic of Jura
Gourock, G. Gurraig; I do not know of old forms of the word, but I suggest a Norse personal name, Guthrek: Henderson 1910, 161
