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Invergowrie

Inbhir Ghobhraidh

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Perthshire

Perth and Kinross

NO346301


English / Map Form: Invergowrie

Gaelic Form: Inbhir Ghobhraidh


Location: Firth of Tay

Post Town: DUNDEE

County: Perthshire

Local Authority: Perth and Kinross

English / Map Form: Invergowrie

Gaelic Form: Inbhir Ghobhraidh


Language Notes

G nom. sg. inbhir, masc. 'confluence' + ? 

Element Meaning

G inbhir ~ confluence + ?  

Sources

Inuirgoueryn 1275 Reg. Vetus de Aberbrothock 238
Innergowrie 1642 Retours (Forfar) no. 268
Innergoria 1654 Blaeu text p.89
Burn of Invergowrie 1834-45 Stat. Acc. Sco. volume 11 page 569

 

Inbhirghòbhraidh 1907 Am Feillire, 18

“Gobhraidh, Gowrie, a tributary of Conon, is probably from gobhar, a goat, like Bocaidh; Gowrie of Invergowrie in Perthshire may be the same” Watson 1926, 442

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