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Ordnance Survey - Argyll county, OS Name Books - Argyll county - Volume 8 - Parish of Inveraray, OS1/2/8

Continued entries/extra info

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Argyllshire -- Parish of Inverary

Leathaid Bheith [note]
Leathan Bheith The Declivity of Birches
Leathan Beithe the Declivity of Birch or Birch declivity
?

Creagan Craoibhe-caorruinn [note]
Croibhe Caorruinn ought to be written a Compound word - see sheet 151
6 inch scale and Name Bk [Book] for the same page 76 where Croabh-fearna
is made a compound word [--] a parallel case
Then see [the rule] for the declension of compound nouns in any Gaelic Dic [Dictionary]
of Compound Nouns
Rule - The antecedent noun is declined
in both numbers according to its own declension
with the subjunctive noun agreeing with
it in every case like an adjective but always
retaining the termination of its genitive in both numbers

Ordnance Survey - Argyll county, OS Name Books - Argyll county - Volume 8 - Parish of Inveraray, OS1/2/8

This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Inveraray.

Ordnance Survey - Argyll county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Argyll, which is in the west of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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