Kensaleyre
Ceann Sàil Eighre
Meaning
head of the inlet at the beach
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 EighreElement 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
