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Sanquhar

An t-Seanchair


Meaning

the old fort


Settlement

Location

Dumfriesshire

Dumfries and Galloway

NS781099


English / Map Form: Sanquhar

Gaelic Form: An t-Seanchair


Location: Dumfries & Galloway

Post Town: SANQUHAR

County: Dumfriesshire

Local Authority: Dumfries and Galloway

English / Map Form: Sanquhar

Gaelic Form: An t-Seanchair


Language Notes

 

Sources

Sanchar 1466 RSS vol 5 pt 2
Sawcher [for Sancher] 1568 Bannatyne Miscellany vol i, 24
Sanchair c. 1591 Pont text 152v
Shanquhair, for Sean-chathair, old fort, Gartly Watson 1926, 222
Sanquhar, like the other places of that name, means ‘old fort’, and is
Gaelic in form. Watson 1926, 368
G sean chathair, old fort Johnson-Ferguson
Seann Chathair Mark

Applicable policy: (b)

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