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Kilvaxter

Cille Bhacastair


Meaning

church of *Bacastar


Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NG379694


English / Map Form: Kilvaxter

Gaelic Form: Cille Bhacastair


Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides

Post Town: PORTREE

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

Nearest Main Roads: A855

English / Map Form: Kilvaxter

Gaelic Form: Cille Bhacastair


Genitive Form: Chille Bhacastair

Language Notes

Now understood as: nom. sg. cill fem. ‘church’ (with epenthetic vowel) + lenited and slenderised gen. sg. of obscure element *bacastar = ‘church of bacastar’

Element Meaning

G cill ~ church; obscure element ~ bacastar

Sources

Killibaxter 1644 Retours (Inverness) no. 68
Kilvakisa 1654 Blaeu Map (Skye)
Kilvaxter 1662 Retours (Inverness) no. 88
Killibaxter 1666 RMS xi no. 902
Cille Bhacstair Dwelly 1912
(Cille Bhagstar) cellar church of the baker (uncertain) Forbes, 228
Cille Bhacastair [‘vaʰkə’stəðʲ] Cox, local source

Additional Information

B. Gordon 1964, 91-94 discusses the possibility that this name is not originally a cill name at all, but is a reinterpretation of a staðr name. Whatever the identity of the second element, she proves it does not represent a saint’s name.

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