English / Map Form: Kilbirnie
Gaelic Form: Cill Bhreannain
Local Authority: North Ayrshire
English / Map Form: Kilbirnie
Gaelic Form: Cill Bhreannain
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
| Kylbyrne | 1275 Glasg. Reg. Lxxvi, app. i |
| Kilbirny | 1526 RMS iii, 365 |
…supposed to be ‘Brendan’s church,’ and this is supported by St. Brennan’s Fair which used to be held there.: Watson 1926, 189
See also Watson 2002(1913), 128, n1.
This is different from Kilbirnie in Beauly ~ Cùil Bhraonaidh.
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