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The Inneans

Na h-Inneanan Mòra is Beaga


Location

Argyll & Bute

Argyll & Bute

PA28

NR707075


English / Map Form: The Inneans

Gaelic Form: Na h-Inneanan Mòra is Beaga


Post Town: CAMPBELTOWN

Postcode area: PA28

County: Argyll & Bute

Local Authority: Argyll & Bute

English / Map Form: The Inneans

Gaelic Form: Na h-Inneanan Mòra is Beaga


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 innean ~ anvil or anvil shaped hill.

Sources

There are a number of places deriving from this element. For example, Middle Inens in Cowal and Innean Glen in Kintyre. Robertson also gives na h-aoinnean for a place near Taynuilt, and an t-innean for Inion.

The place in question is by Innean a’ Chromain, ‘anvil of the kite’. The English form is a plural reflecting he two places Innean Mòr and Beag.

A. Martin says this is from ‘anvil’ (pers.comm.)

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