English / Map Form: Kilbraur
Gaelic Form: Cill Bràthar
Location: Brora
Post Town: Brora
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Kilbraur
Gaelic Form: Cill Bràthar
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Kilnabraar 1548 RMS iv 241
Kilmabrair 1563 RSS v 1463
Kilnabrair 1564 RSS v 1704
Kilnabrayr x 2 1566 Sutherland Charters 103 [Culnabrayr in OPS 667]
Kilnabrair 1566 RSS v 2718
Kilbrar: G. cill-brathair, the cill or cell of the brother (monk), a culdee, where he located himself on a beautiful site, amongst a large population: MacKay, 1892, 339
Cill-Bràthar Robertson Collection MS359a, 78
‘the Brethren’s Church,’…. Cill nam Bràthair Watson 1926, 273
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