English / Map Form: Inchcailloch
Gaelic Form: Innis Cailleach
Location: Loch Lomond ~ Loch Laomainn
Local Authority: Stirling
English / Map Form: Inchcailloch
Gaelic Form: Innis Cailleach
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
| Inchekalloche | c. 1350 RMS no. 1144 (Index B) Vol I | |
| Inchcalzeoch | c. 1350 RMS no. 1190 (Index A) Vol I | |
| Inchkalleche | c. 1350 RMS no. 1190 (Index B) Vol I | |
| Inchecallach | 1405 Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollok p. 146 | |
| Inchecallioch | 1498 RMS no. 2416 vol II | |
| Inischailly | c. 1591 Pont map 17 | |
| Inch-chaille | c. 1591 Pont text 150r | |
| Inchalcheoche | 1610 RMS no. 397 vol VII | |
| Inchecalyeoch | 1612 RMS no. 735 vol. VII | |
| Inchcalleoch | 1614 RMS no. 1049 vol. VII | |
| Inschecalleoche | 1618 RMS no. 1834 vol. VII | |
| Inchcalyeoch | 1622 RMS no. 358 vol.VIII | |
| Inchcaleoch | 1628 RMS no. 1222 vol. VIII | |
| Inchcalyeoche | 1655 Retours (Dumbartonshire) no. 53. | |
| Inche-Chaille which means Wooded island | 1654 Blaeu Text p. 68 | |
| Inchcalzeoch | 1662 Retours (Dumbartonshire) no. 57 | |
| Inche chaille | 1654 Blaeu map 27 | |
| Inchcallioch | 1724 Description of six parishes (Macf.Geog.Coll p335) | |
| Isle of Inchcallioth | 1724 Description of six parishes (Macf.Geog.Coll p346) | |
| ?Inissicailloch | 1747-1755 Roy’s Map | |
| Inchfaillach | 1820 Thompson’s Map |
The old forms squarely suggest Innis Cailleach, that is a gen. pl. `Island of nuns’. The Pont / Blaeu forms are based on the mistaken derivation of G coille. This is supported by the Blaeu text: `Inche-Chaille which means Wooded island’.
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