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 |