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Sandbank

An Oitir

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Meaning

bank or ridge in the sea


Settlement

Location

Argyll & Bute

Argyll & Bute

NS160800


English / Map Form: Sandbank

Gaelic Form: An Oitir


Location: Cowal, Argyll

Post Town: DUNOON

County: Argyll & Bute

Local Authority: Argyll & Bute

English / Map Form: Sandbank

Gaelic Form: An Oitir


Language Notes

G fem. def. art an + G nom. sg. oitir, ‘bank or ridge in the sea’

Element Meaning

oitir ~ bank or ridge in the sea

Sources

Cladich House 1751 Valuation Rolls for Argyllshire
Cladehouse 1841 Census Dunoon & Kilmun SCT1841/510
Sandbank 1869 OS 6 inch 1st edn.

Sandbank 1912 Bartholomew’s Map

Additional Information

Mac an Tàilleir: “The Gaelic name of Sandbank in Argyll is the house by the shore. An older form of the English name was Claddyhouse, showing that the local Gaelic was probably Taigh a’ Chladaigh with the southern form of the genitive singular rather than the standard form given above.”

McLean p. 43 and p. 120 and Hill p. 58 say that Claddyhouse was the old name for Sandbank, but
neither support the claim. There is a house called Claddyhouse at NS161803, marked but not named
in 1868 1:2500 OS map.

The name Taigh a’ Chladaich exists in at least two other places in the relative vicinity with similar
topographies. One is at NN134079 in Cowal as Tighcladich (Tighe Cladaich 1874 OS) The other is
somewhere in Rhu Parish (Tayichladick 1756 Acts of Commisioners of Supply (Annals of Garelochside
p. 321) presumably on Garelochside. The 1869 OS 6 inch edn.map shows a sandpit on this site as
well as a place called Sandbank.

Although the forms of Claddyhouse might reflect Taigh a’ Chladaich there is no evidence for the use
of this applying to Sandbank as a whole. The proposed form is a semantic parallel with English.

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