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Loch Chon

Loch Chon


Water

Location

Stirling

NN428051


English / Map Form: Loch Chon

Gaelic Form: Loch Chon


Location: Strathyre

Post Town: Callander ~ Calasraid

County: -- Select a county --

Local Authority: Stirling

English / Map Form: Loch Chon

Gaelic Form: Loch Chon


Language Notes

G loch, nom. sg. masc. + irregular gen. pl. of cu, masc. ‘dog’ = ‘Loch of dogs’

Element Meaning

 

Sources

Loch Ko

c. 1591 Pont map 17
Loch-con, water of Con 1724 Description of six parishes (Macf. Geog. Coll vol. 1 p. 343)
Lochcon 1724 Inchcallioch or Buchanan Paroch (Macf. Geog. Coll vol. 1 p. 347)
Loch Chon 1783 Stobie
Loch Chon 1820 Thomson

Additional Information

Given the non-lenition of the earlier forms, the name may have originally derived from ‘coin’ meaning dog. gen. sg., or some other element entirely.

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