English / Map Form: Gullane
Gaelic Form: A’ Ghualainn
Location: Gullane
Post Town: GULLANE
Postcode area: EH31
County: East Lothian
Local Authority: East Lothian
English / Map Form: Gullane
Gaelic Form: A’ Ghualainn
Language Notes
Sources
Like Gullane, in East Lothian pronounced locally “Goolain,” being Anglice for “gualainn,” shoulder.: letter to the Oban Times March 19th 1910.
Gullane is probably for gualainn, ‘ at-shoulder ’: Watson 1926, 142