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.
