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Stronafian

Sròn nam Fiann


Settlement

Location

Argyll & Bute

Argyll & Bute

PA22

NS024817


English / Map Form: Stronafian

Gaelic Form: Sròn nam Fiann


Post Town: COLINTRAIVE

Postcode area: PA22

County: Argyll & Bute

Local Authority: Argyll & Bute

English / Map Form: Stronafian

Gaelic Form: Sròn nam Fiann


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 

Sources

terris de Stronfyane 1620 Retours (Argyll) 23
StronefianeStronafian 1697 Commissarot Recs of Argyll, 1
Stronafian 1697 Commissarot Recs of Argyll, 47
Stronafian 1699 Commissarot Recs of Argyll, 36
Stronafian 1699 Commissarot Recs of Argyll, 45
Stronefine 1801 Langlands

Sron nam Fiann: An Gaidheal 1872, 114 [It is not clear which site is meant]
Stron na fian: Robertson MS

1) fhionn, fair, white; 2) nam fintag, black heath berry: McLean

Additional Information

The word fiann in genitive plural appears a number of times in place-names. Dwelly gives fiann for ‘giant’ (i.e. Fingalian, Fenian etc). Diack (Place-names of Pictland, ii, 136) says fiann is a ‘local’ term for black heath-berry (local to ABD). Sròn nam Fiann exists at NJ1510.

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