English / Map Form: Stirling
Gaelic Form: Sruighlea
Location: Stirlingshire
Post Town: STIRLING
County: Stirlingshire
Local Authority: Stirling
English / Map Form: Stirling
Gaelic Form: Sruighlea
Language Notes
G sruighlea obscure elementElement Meaning
G sruighlea obscure element
Sources
Sruighle c. 1658 Niall mac Mhuirich, NLS Adv. MS 72.1.50, fo. 4v
Sruidhleadh 1813 Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir
Sribhlinn 1822 Ward
Sruithlath 1851 Caimbeul
an t-Sruibhleach 1868 Iain Lom
Sruighlea Dwelly 1912
Sruighlea SMO website
For further reading see “The Etymologies of Pluscarden and Stirling” by Thomas Owen Clancy, University of Glasgow
Additional Information
This is an established name.
