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Mull of Galloway

Maol nan Gall

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Meaning

rounded headleand of the foreigners


Settlement

Location

Wigtownshire

Dumfries and Galloway

NX156304


English / Map Form: Mull of Galloway

Gaelic Form: Maol nan Gall


Location: Dumfries and Galloway

Post Town: STRANRAER

County: Wigtownshire

Local Authority: Dumfries and Galloway

English / Map Form: Mull of Galloway

Gaelic Form: Maol nan Gall


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

G maol ~ rounded headland; gall ~ foreigner, Norseman, Norse-Gael

Sources

Maol nan Gall: Dwelly
Maol nan Gall: Highland Magazine 1885 vol 1 no 4 pp 370-373.
“G. Gall Gaidhealaibh, ‘ stranger Gaels ‘ (Watson), which is curtailed to ‘Gall’ in the case of Maol nan Gall, the Mull of Galloway.” Old-lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, and Sutherland, Volume 10, Parts 3-5

Additional Information

The Highland Magazine form is derived from some other unnamed literary source, and is likely itself the source of Dwelly’s form.

Alternative Forms

Maol Ghallghaidheil

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