The History of the Celtic Place-names of Scotland: Being the Rhind Lectures on Archaeology (expanded) Delivered in 1916 |
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Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Achadh Adamnan Aedán Ailech Alba ancient anglicized appears Argyll Ayrshire Baile Bain's Cal Banffshire battle Blaeu Britain British Britons burn Caledonians called Celt century chapel Chart church Coll Colum Cille Columba commemorated connected Dail Dál Riata dative district Dún E.Celt early east English Fife Forfarshire Fortriu Gael Gaelic form Galloway Gaulish genitive Gleann Glen Gorman hill instance insula Inverness Iona Ireland Irish island Islay isle king Kintyre Kuno Meyer land later Latin Loch Loch Awe Macfarlane Maeatae Magh maic Mart meaning mentioned Monadh monastery Nennius Norse O.Ir occurs Oengus Old Stat Orig parish Paroch personal name Perthshire Pictish Pictish Chronicle Picts place-names probably record Rheged river Ross Ross-shire RPSA saint says Scotland Scots Scottish Gaelic shire Skene Skye spelling stone Strath stream Suidhe Sutherland syllable term tribe Welsh whence
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Page 217 - O'Clery, too, has muireann .1. ga no sleagh. — Ed. MUG-ÉIME, that is the name of the first lapdog that was in Ireland. Cairbre Muse, son of Conaire (1) brought it from the east from Britain; for when great was the power of the Gael on Britain, they divided Alba between them into districts, and each knew the residence of his friend, and not less did the Gael dwell on the east side of the sea quam in Scotica, and their habitations and royal forts were built there.
Page 297 - Martini episcopi nomine et ecclesia iiisignem, ubi ipse etiam corpore una cum pluribus sanctis requiescit, iam nunc Anglorum gens obtinet. Qui locus, ad provinciam Berniciorum pertinens, vulgo vocatur Ad Candidam Casam, eo quod ibi ecclesiam de lapide, insolito Brettonibus more fecerit.
Page 251 - But wherever there is an Annat there are traces of an ancient chapel or cemetery, or both ; very often, too, the Annat adjoins a fine well or clear stream, like that sung by Duncan Ban Macintyre : — ' Fion uillt na h-Annaid, Bias meala r'a h-61 air.
Page 56 - Maeatse dwell close to the wall which divides the island into two parts, and the Caledonii live beyond them. Each of these people inhabit wild mountains, where there is no water, and desert plains and marshes, where they live without walls or cities; neither do they practise husbandry, but live by pasturage, or the...
Page 339 - Keinvarvawc — (when he was told he had a son born, he said to his wife : Damsel, if thy son be mine, his heart will be always cold, and there will be no warmth in his hands).
Page xix - LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRI. A Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, in the Irish Language, transcribed about AD...
Page 286 - Strathnairn lairds early ranged themselves on the side of Protestantism, and the people followed the lairds; but notwithstanding this, old customs died hard, and for a long time darkness and superstition prevailed. Even as late as 23rd November, 1643, it was reported to the Presbytery of Inverness " that there was in the Paroch of Dunlichitie ane Idolatrous Image called St Finane, keepit in a private house obscurely...
Page 116 - man from Ro'. 'According to a tradition which may be substantially correct the ancestors of the Munros came from Ireland, from the foot of the river Roe in Deny, whence the name Bunrotha, giving Mun-rotha by eclipsis of b after the preposition in
Page 84 - This day a furious storm shall proceed from a cloud, which you will soon see rising in the north, shall overwhelm him and his companions, so that not one of them will survive to tell the tale." After the lapse of a few moments, even while the day was perfectly calm, behold ! a cloud arose from the sea, as the saint had said, and caused a great hurricane, which overtook the plunderer with his spoil, between the Malean and Colosus islands (Mull and Colonsay), and overwhelmed him in the midst of the...
Page 519 - What serves to confirm this origin of the name is, that the fishermen, who have marked out the steeple of this church for a meath or mark to direct them at sea, call it St Irnie to this day ; and the estate which lies close by the church is called Irniehill; but, by the transposition of the letter i, Minnie- Hill.