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Keoldale

Cealldal


Location

Sutherland

Highland

NC380662


English / Map Form: Keoldale

Gaelic Form: Cealldal


County: Sutherland

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Keoldale

Gaelic Form: Cealldal


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 

Sources

Kandowll [=Kaudowll] 1551 RSS iv, 1371 (near Galdwell)
Kaudoule 1555 RSS iv, 3060
Kualdale 1565 RMS iv, 1669
Kauldale 1559 Sutherland Charters
Kealdill c. 1591 Pont map 2 front
Caldele 1601 Sutherland Charters
Caldel 1605 Retours (Sutherland)
Cealdail Dwelly 1912 Cealldail Watson in MacBain, x Cealdail Watson 2002 (1906) 69

Cealldal, Sgire Dhùiranais 1899 TGSI, 16 [Poem by Barbara-nighean-Roib, local poet]

Ann an Cealldail: c. 1899 “John MacAllan” Poem by Rob Donn from ‘Songs and poems in the Gaelic language”

Additional Information

 In the 1906 article, Watson gives all the names deriving from –dalr Gaelic forms in –dail.

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