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 |
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