English / Map Form: South Gyle
Gaelic Form: Gyle a Deas
Location: Edinburgh
Post Town: EDINBURGH
Postcode area: EH12
County: City of Edinburgh
Local Authority: City of Edinburgh
English / Map Form: South Gyle
Gaelic Form: Gyle a Deas
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
‘Water, swirling of a stream’ v. G. goill, applied here to flooding of the fields” Dixon, 152
Additional Information
Gyle is probably a Scots term only preserved in place-names meaning a path through a bog (Simon Taylor pers.comm.).
