English / Map Form: Inverchapel
Gaelic Form: Inbhir Chapaill
Location: Port Riddell
Post Town: Dunoon ~ Dùn Obhainn
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Inverchapel
Gaelic Form: Inbhir Chapaill
Language Notes
nom. sg. G inbhir, masc. ‘confluence’ + gen. sg. of capall, ‘horse’ presumably as a river-name.Sources
Invercapill | 1474 RMS ii no. 1185 | |
?Innerheple | 1493 Cart. Colquhoun LXXX no. 3 [lands of Innerheple and Cawelaid etc.] | |
Inverquhapil, Inverquhapill | 1497 RMS ii no. 2385 | |
Invercapill | 1511 RMS ii no. 3623 | |
Innerchappill | c. 1591 Pont Map | 14 |
Innerchappell in Cowell | 1599 Retours (Argyll) no. 5 | |
Innerquhapil | 1667 RMS xi no. 1105 | |
?Invercapill | 1680 Cart. Colquhoun LXXX no. 3 [lands of Killnyne, I and Cavilat] | |
Innerquhappill | 1695 Retours (Argyll) no.95 | |
Inverchapil | 1747-55 Roy |