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Skelbo

Sgèireabol


Settlement

Location

Sutherland

Highland

IV25

NH790949


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.

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