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Portvasgo

Port Bhaisgeo


Location

Sutherland

Highland

IV27

NC585648


English / Map Form: Portvasgo

Gaelic Form: Port Bhaisgeo


Post Town: LAIRG

Postcode area: IV27

County: Sutherland

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Portvasgo

Gaelic Form: Port Bhaisgeo


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 

Sources

Baes-gho c. 1591 Pont map 2r
Baes-gho 1654 Blaeu Map Strathnaver
Port Easka 1747-55 Roy
Port Vascaig 1820 Thomson
Port-vaskaig 1832 Burnett

“Port vasgo G., Port-an-fhasgaidh, the port of shelter, which it naturally is, from the prevailing N.w. winds and storms.” MacKay 1891, 121.

“Port Vasco. On the ordinance survey maps it is etymologised into G. port an fhasgaidh, port of shelter. The word is more probably Norse, the final goe, creek, proving its Norse origin.” Gunn, Sutherland and Reay Country
Port Vasgo hvass-gjá: Watson 2002 (1906), 62
Am Port OR Port Bhaisgea: Seumas Grannd 2007

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