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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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As people grow older and social customs change, the local names
of familiar places, and the meanings of these names, are not being
passed on as they once were, neither in spoken nor in written form.
This is particularly true in areas where local names are not always
in English, such as the Gaelic-influenced areas of the Scottish
Highlands, where names are even disappearing off the latest Ordnance
Survey maps.
Garbh Criochan an Adeas is an historical project for this
particular region, An Garbh Criochan an Adeas, or the Southern Rough
Bounds. The region lies on the west coast, some distance west
of Fort William, and encompasses the remote and sparsely-populated
areas of Ardgour, Sunart, Morvern, Ardnamurchan and Moidart.
Headed by Jim Kirby, an archaeologist with a forestry background
and experience gained in both these disciplines in the An Garbh
Criochan an Adeas area, the project aims to create a repository
for place-names and a learning and general interest resource both
for this and future generations.
We're looking for lists of names, single names, information from
books or maps of any age - estate maps are often particularly good
for this. If we can see them or copy them, so much the better,
but every little helps.
If you can help with this project, please contact us (see below)
- details of any place names you may know of can also be sent in
the same way. You can download a survey form (in pdf format) by
clicking here.
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A collection
of Gaelic
place names near Glenuig
(Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map
service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance
Survey and Ordnance Survey
of Northern Ireland.)
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