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.