Language Notes

Element Meaning

Sources

Garntully c. 1591 Pont map 23
Garntullich 1654 Blaeu map Scotiae provinciae
Garntully 1747-55 Roy

Ga`rran-d/u/llaich = goran or garradh an tullaich, thicket or den of the knoll.: Robertson [u in dullaich has an o over it.]
Grandtully Garran-tulaich (Garadh (or Garan) an tulaich ?): Robertson
Gair’-an-tulaich: Gow 1901, 49
Gar’n tulaich: Watson CW9
gharandolich: Diack MS2276
Gar’n tulaich: Kennedy 1927, 2

Additional Information

“(G. Gair’-an-tulaich, either for “Carntulaich”— with “c” changed to “g” owing to a suppressed preposition “an,” in – or, more probably, for “Carn-an-tulaich,” with the stress changed to the fust syllable. The ” t” is pronounced like “d,” which points to the presence of the definite article in the name). — Cairn tulloch (swelling ground), or The cairn of the tulloch. Lowland Scotch pronunciation, Gairintully.”: Gow 1901. 49

“The latter part of the name Grandtully also I am inclined to think may be this dalaich [the dative of dail] and not as originally though tulaich. The name Grandtully is now applied to the whole south side of the Tay from about opposite Logierait to near Aberfeldy a stretch of six or seven miles, but originally the name seems to have been applied to a small area in the neighbourhood of the present Grandtully station. In this vicinity there are places called East Brae and West Brae of Grandtully showing that they formed the upper part of the original Grandully and lower down, that is more definitely between East Brae and the River Tay is or was a place called an t-Iochdar or more fully Iochdar Gharran-dollaich that is the lower part or in our Scotch tongue the Laigh or more fully the Laigh of Grandtully. Now those names Brae or Bràigh and Iochdar must indicate approximately at least the extent of the original Grandtully. The Dail or Haugh now called as we have said already the Vale of Grandtully is close to those places and would account for the dalaich part of the name Grandtully. What the first part of the name Grandtully is hard to say. As the accent is on the first syllable of the name Garandollaich the first part showed [to] be an adjective, as in Caoldalaich.” Robertson MS381, p. 26

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