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Mingary

Mìogharraidh

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Location

Argyll & Bute

Highland

PH36

NM500633


English / Map Form: Mingary

Gaelic Form: Mìogharraidh


Location: Lochaber, Highland

Post Town: ACHARACLE

Postcode area: PH36

County: Argyll & Bute

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Mingary

Gaelic Form: Mìogharraidh


Language Notes

G nom. sg. cidhe, ‘pier’ + en Mìogharraidh = ? ON nom. sg. neut. adj. megin, ‘main’ + ON nom. sg. gerði neut. ‘enclosure’

Element Meaning

G cidhe ~ pier; Mìogharraidh place name

Sources

Castle Megarie c. 1620 Pont text 87r
terrarum de Megare 1642 Retours (Argyle) no. 59
terrarum de Megare 1674 Retours (Argyle) no. 81
lands of Mingarie 1667 RMS xi no. 1105
Mingarie 1695 Retours (Argyle) no. 93
Mingary 1733 Bruce
Mingary Castle 1747-55 Roy
C. Mingary 1775 Mackenzie: The sound of Mull
Castle Mingary 1801 Langlands
Castle Mingary 1804 Heather
Mingary Cas. 1820 Thomson
Mingarry is Mioghairidh MacBain 1922, 167
[mi.ngarγ] MacDonald

Henderson 1915, 160: “It must be pointed out that the sound ‘ng’ does not belong to Gaelic, and that whenever it occurs it is an importation. Mingary is really Mioghairidh.”

[Mingary] Castle Caisteal nan Gall or Caisteal Mhinngaraidh; Mingary Minngairaidh: Robertson

Additional Information

Also applied to Mingarry Pier ~ Cidhe Mhìogharraidh.

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