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) |
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.