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Longforgan

Forgrann


Location

Perth and Kinross

NO311298


English / Map Form: Longforgan

Gaelic Form: Forgrann


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Local Authority: Perth and Kinross

English / Map Form: Longforgan

Gaelic Form: Forgrann


Genitive Form: Fhorgrainn

Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 

Sources

O.G. gronn or gromn = a bog: Robertson

Longforgan in the Carse of Gowrie; Forgrund, 1178-82 (Chart, Lind.); Langforgrunde, 1377-82 (RMS)… Forgrund is compounded of for, over, on, and gronn, and means ‘on or above the bog.’ For the spelling we may compare that of Morgan, earl of Mar, whose name is spelled Morgrund, c. 1153.2 The relation of the Carse of Gowrie pair of names, Forgan and Monorgan, is interesting, Forgan is the place ‘ above the gronn ’ ; the grown, that is to say, occupied the site of what is now Monorgan. In later times, when the meaning of gronn was forgotten, this moss or bog was styled ‘ the bog of Forgan,’ i.e. in Gaelic Móin-Fhorgruinn, Monorgrund. Watson 1926, 381 [in discussion of gronn element]

Additional Information

Watson’s reconstructed form of Móin-Fhorgruinn suggests a Gaelic form of Forgrann for what is now Longforgan

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