English / Map Form: Grogport
Gaelic Form: Gròb-Phort
Location: Kintyre ~ Cinn Tìre
Post Town: CAMPBELTOWN
Postcode area: PA28
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Grogport
Gaelic Form: Gròb-Phort
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Air chuairt an Gròb-phort: 1882, Duain agus Orain le Uilleam MacDhunleibhe, 87 (Blar Shunadail)
“A little village which rejoices in the suggestive name of Grogport, and which, I am informed, used to be a famous rendezvous of smugglers, sma’-still men, and such like” A Yachtsman’s Holidays, 1879, 51
Additional Information
This is an English/Scots name dating from the 19th Century.
