Kensaleyre

Ceann Sàil Eighre

Meaning

head of the inlet at the beach

Settlement

Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NG423515

English / Map Form: Kensaleyre

Gaelic Form: Ceann Sàil Eighre

Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides

Post Town: PORTREE

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Kensaleyre

Gaelic Form: Ceann Sàil Eighre

Genitive Form: Cheann Sàil Eighre

Language Notes

G nom. sg. ceann, masc. ‘head, end’ + G gen. sg. of sàil, ‘sea bay’ masc. + en Eighre

Element Meaning

G ceann ~ head; sàil ~ inlet; ON eighre ~ beach

Sources

Loch Cenna Sail Eire 1820 Thomson
L. Kean Saleyne 1857 Admiralty Charts

Henderson 1910 p. 190: “a hybrid, the first part signifying Kintail, or ’head of the salt-water,’ the last being N. eyrr, ’pebbly beach.”
Forbes p.222 Head of the sea gravelly beach ceann-sail-ire, eyrr