English / Map Form: Killean
Gaelic Form: Cill Eathain
Post Town: Isle of Gigha
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Killean
Gaelic Form: Cill Eathain
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Cill eathainn: Robertson
Cill Eathain: Place-names of Kintyre
Additional Information
This is dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist. All Robertson’s place-name forms in Islay you would expect to end in -(a)in end in -(a)inn. Cf Holmer, Gaelic of Kintyre, p. 23 where he says : “beachainn… bees. In front of I, where the palatal off-glide is reduce , n’ and n are often alike.”
