Shandwick

Seanndabhaig

Meaning

sand-bay

Island, Settlement

Location

Ross and Cromarty

Highland

IV20

NH858750

English / Map Form: Shandwick

Gaelic Form: Seanndabhaig

Location: Easter Ross, Highland

Post Town: TAIN

Postcode area: IV20

County: Ross and Cromarty

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Shandwick

Gaelic Form: Seanndabhaig

Genitive Form: Sheanndabhaig

Language Notes

ON sand-vík: ON stem form sand, fem. ‘masc’ + masc. sg. of ON vík, fem. 'bay'

Element Meaning

ON sand ~ sand; vík. ‘bay’

Sources

Sandwyck c. 1590 Pont map 20
port of sandwik 1604 RMS v no. 1545
Sandwich 1654 Blaeu Map (Moray)
Shandwick 1730 Wade’s Military Maps of Scotland
Sandwich 1745 Moll’s Shires of Ross, and Cromartie
Shandoig 1747-55 Roy
Shandwicke 1791-1799 OSA (Nigg), 589
Shandwick 1820 Thomson
Shandwick 1880 OS 6 inch 1st edn.
G. seannduaig…from Norse sand-vík sand-bay. Watson 1904, 50
Seannduaig (Watson) or Seanndabhaig (CR) Dwelly 1912
Seanndabhaig Robertson
ʃauntə-vik Diack MS2276
s̆ɑ̃ũːntigi Dorian, Place-name Survey material