English / Map Form: St Kilda
Gaelic Form: Hiort
Post Town: Isle of North Uist
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Western Isles
English / Map Form: St Kilda
Gaelic Form: Hiort
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Irt: Dwelly
St. Kilda is in Gaelic Hiort, also often Hirt, the latter being the genitive used as nominative: Watson 1926, 97
‘Hirt is used in Lewis and on the mainland; in Uist they say Hirt; for ‘in Hirt’ they say an t-Irt, and a native of Hirt is with them, sometimes at least, Tirteach: Watson 1926 97 n4
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