English / Map Form: Skelbo
Gaelic Form: Sgèireabol
Post Town: DORNOCH
Postcode area: IV25
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Skelbo
Gaelic Form: Sgèireabol
Sources
Sgèireaboll – CR; Sgeilbol*: Dwelly
Sgèireaboll: Robertson
skerebeL: Dorian
Sgeireabol: Mac an Tàilleir
The local Gaelic pronunciation is “Skerrabol or more correctly in Gaelic phonetics Sgèireaboll”: CW146. Letter from George Black to Watson
‘Shell Stead’, Watson 2002 (1930), 234 and 2002 (1904), 68.
Additional Information
It would seem Watson intends ON *skel-bolstaðr, based on his meaning given and Dwelly’s form, but this does not suit the other Gaelic forms given.