English / Map Form: Kilbowie
Gaelic Form: A’ Chùilt Bhuidhe
Location: Argyll
Post Town: OBAN
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Kilbowie
Gaelic Form: A’ Chùilt Bhuidhe
Language Notes
G a', leniting nom. sg. fem. def. art. + lenited nom. sg. cùilt, fem. ‘nook’ + lenited nom. sg.adj. buidhe, ‘yellow’ = ‘the yellow back’Element Meaning
cùilt ~ nook, back; buidhe ~ yellow
Sources
This appears to be a new transferred name. It first appears on the OS 1899 1:25000 map,
first revision, it is absent from the first edition. RCAHMS has no records of this site ever having
a church. Informant WG was unaware of the Gaelic name of this place, and did not know of any
tradition of a church at this site. It is likely a be transferred from Kilbowie in Clydebank (NS495705),
for which the old forms are:
| Cultbrit | 1182 x 1199 Lenn. Cart. 12 |
| Cuiltebut | 1182 x 1199 Pais. Reg. 157 |
| Cultbuche | 1222 x 1250 Pais. Reg. 173 |
| Cultensuthe | 1222 x 1250 Pais. Reg. 159 [presumably for Cultenbuthe (long s) rubric] |
| terram de Cultbuthe | 1237 Acts of Parliaments vol I p85 |
| terram de Cultbuthe | 1233 Pais. Reg. 166 |
| Cultbovy | 1273 Cart. de Levenax |
|
terre de Cultbovy |
1367 Acts of Parliaments vol I p170 |
| Kilbwy | 1579 Parliamentary records [1579/10/4] |
| Estir et Westir Culboyis | 1621 Retours (Dumbarton) no. 24 |
| Cwlbie (vel Culbowie) | 1634 Retours (Dumbarton) no. 31 |
| Culbowie-Eistir | 1642 Retours (Dumbarton) no. 40 |
| Coulbuy | 1654 Blaeu (Pont) Lennox |
| Wester Culbowie | 1665 Retours (Dumbarton) no. 63 |
|
Over, Midle et Neather Kilboyes |
1676 Retours (Dumbarton) no. 69 |
| Killbuy | 1777 Ross’s map of the Shire of Dumbarton. |
| Kilbowie | 1865 OS 6 inch 1st edn. |
Additional Information
Applied to Kilbowie House, Oban.
