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Shettleston

Baile Nighean Sheadna


Meaning

town of the daughter of Seadna


Location

City of Glasgow

Glasgow City

NS648643


English / Map Form: Shettleston

Gaelic Form: Baile Nighean Sheadna


Location: Glasgow

Post Town: GLASGOW

County: City of Glasgow

Local Authority: Glasgow City

English / Map Form: Shettleston

Gaelic Form: Baile Nighean Sheadna


Language Notes


These forms represent Latin and Gaelic forms of the name. The Gaelic represents *Baile (translated as villa) + Inghean 'daughter' (modern Gaelic: nighean) + Seadna a personal name

Element Meaning

G Baile (town)+ Inghean (daughter), modern Gaelic: nighean) + Seadna (a personal name)

Sources

baile inghine Seadna Watson 1926, 204-5

villa filie Sadin 1170 Glas. Reg. no. 26
villa inineschadin 1173 Glas. Reg. no. 28
inienschedin 1175 Glas. Reg. no. 32
villam filie Sedin 1179 Glas. Reg. no. 51
Schedenest’ 1182 Glas. Reg. no. 57 [rubric]
villam filie scadin 1182 Glas. Reg. no. 57
Schedinestun’ 1186 Glas. Reg. no. 62
Schedenest’ 1216 Glas. Reg. no. 111 [rubric]
Sedinchistun’ 1216 Glas. Reg. no. 111
Crucem de Schedenestun’ 1223 Glas. Reg. no. 135

Additional Information

This means ‘Estate of Seadna’s daughter’. For further discussion of this name see Watson 1926, 204-5 and Taylor, S Gaelic in Glasgow: The Onomastic Evidence, 7 and 16 in Kidd, Glasgow: Baile Mòr nan Gàidheal, 2007.

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