Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire: Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and IllustrationsDixon, John H. (John Henry)
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Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire: Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations
Dixon, John H. (John Henry)
Gairloch (Scotland) -- Guidebooks; Gairloch (Scotland) -- History; Ross and Cromarty (Scotland) -- History
_Ceann a Chro_ (kayoun-a-chroe), End or head of the cruive.
_Ceann_, end or head; _cro_, a cruive, or fank.
_Ceann a chruinn_ (kayoun a chreinie), mast head, or tree
head or end. _Ceann_, a head, end; _cruinn_, possessive of
_crann_, a tree or mast.
_Ceann an t' sail_ (kayoun an tarl), end or head of the salt
water. _Ceann_, end or head; _sail_, salt water. Corrupted
further south into Kintail.
_Ceann loch iu_ (kayoun loch ew), head of Loch Ewe. _Ceann_,
a head.
_Ceardach ruadh_ (karstoch roo-er), Red smiddy. See _A
cheardach ruadh_.
_Ceilidh_ (kayley), social meetings. From _ceilidh_, to
visit.
_Ceistear crubach_ (kaister crupboch), lame catechist.
_Ceistear_, a catechist; _crubach_, lame.
_Cibear Mor_ (keeipber more), big shepherd. _Cibear_, a
shepherd; _mor_, great or big.
_Clach_ (klarch), a stone. Possessive, _Cloiche_. Compare
_clough_, found in some English names.
_Clach a Mhail_ (klarch ar varl), Stone of rent. _Clach_, a
stone; _Mal_, rent, tribute.
_Clach an t' Shagart_ (klarch an taggart), Stone of the
priest. _Clach_, a stone; _shagart_, possessive of _sagart_,
a priest.
_Clach nam Brog_ (klarch nam progue), Shoe stone. _Clach_, a
stone; _brog_, a shoe.
_Clachan garbh_ (klachan garrav), Rough village. _Clachan_,
a village; literally stones; supposed to have originally
been a Druidical term. See _Garbh_.
_Cladh nan Sasunnach_ (klug nan sarsenach), Burial-place of
the English. _Cladh_, a burial-place; _Sasunnach_, English,
Saxon, not a Gaelic speaker.
_Claidheamh mor_ (klymore), a broadsword, a claymore.
_Claidheamh_, a sword; _mor_, great, here broad.
_Clais na leac_ (klarsh na lyck), Hollow of the flat stones
or flags. _Clais_, a furrow, a hollow between ridges or
hills; _leac_, a flag.
_Claonadh_ (kluanar), slopes. Compare _inclining_.
_Clann Eachainn_ (klan erchen), offspring of Hector.
_Clann_, offspring or descendants. See _Eachainn_.
_Claymore._ See _Claidheamh mor_.
_Cleireach_ (klearoch), literally clerk. Priests often
called so from their scholarship. The Priest island off the
Greenstone Point is called _Cleireach_ in Gaelic. Compare
_Clericus_.
_Cliabh moine_ (kleea moanyer), peat creel. _Cliabh_, creel;
_moine_, peats.
_Cliff_, or _Clive_ (Gaelic Clu). See _Meall na Cluibha_.
_Clu_ (kloo), a local name; now treated as synonymous with
English _cliff_. See _Meall na Cluibha_.
_Cnoc a chrochadair_ (kroka chrochater), Hangman's hill.
_Cnoc_, a hill, a hillock; _chrochadair_, possessive of
_crochadair_, a hangman.
_Cnoc a croiche_ (krok a chroich), Gallows hill. _Croich_, a
gallows.
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