English / Map Form: Maligar
Gaelic Form: Màileagar
Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides
Post Town: PORTREE
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A855
English / Map Form: Maligar
Gaelic Form: Màileagar
Sources
Maligar | 1820 Thomson |
Malagar, Maligar – not known | Forbes, 262 |
Malaigear | MacKenzie 1931, 23 |
Màileagar | Robertson |
[‘mã:liˌgar] | Cox, local source |
Additional Information
This is an obscure name, although Gordon 1963, 107 states the ending may represent ON gerði neut. ‘enclosure’.