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Wemyss Bay

Bàgh Wemyss

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Meaning

bay of the caves


Coastal

Location

Inverclyde

NS193685


English / Map Form: Wemyss Bay

Gaelic Form: Bàgh Wemyss


Location: North Ayrshire

Post Town: WEMYSS BAY

Local Authority: Inverclyde

English / Map Form: Wemyss Bay

Gaelic Form: Bàgh Wemyss


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

G bàgh ~ bay; uamh ~ cave

Sources

Wemys Point, Wemys Bay 1796 Ainslie/Renfrew
Wemyss Bay, Wemyss Point 1820 Thomson
Weems Pt 1856 Admiralty Chart 2159

Additional Information

Port Wemyss in Islay is as intelligible as Wemyss Bay on the Clyde. MacKinnon, ‘Place-names and Personal names in Argyll’ 1887

J. Boyd, Guide to Wemyss Bay, 1879 seems to be the source of the derivation of this name from uamh, ‘cave’, doubtless by analogy with Weems in Fife. It says, however, that it relates to subterranean Pictish dwellings, an idea now discredited. It also says no caves have been found in the area.

This name is most likely transferred from either the surname or another place-name.
 

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