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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