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Ordnance Survey - Stirling county, OS Name Books - Stirling county - Volume 6 - Parish of Buchanan, OS1/32/6

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Stirlingshire

[Note under Allt nan Cat:]
Allt, a mountain stream, nan, of the (G) [Gaelic]
"The Cat's Burn"

[Note under Cam Allt:]
Cam, crooked. Allt, a mountain stream" (G) [Gaelic]
"The crooked stream"

[Note under Stob na Cleisg:]
Stob na Clisg ?
fem [feminine] * Rule Nouns masculine & fem. [feminine] form their gen. sing. [genitive singular] by adding e to the nom. sing [nominative singular] as tir gen [genitive] tire

Stob, a Stake, na, of the, Cleisg from Clisg, Start (G) [Gaelic]

"Clisg" is given indeclinable in McF's [McFadyen's] and Dewar's Dicty. [Dictionary] If the noun Clisg admit at all of inflection it is
by the regular form it should be declined. It is a feminine noun of the 2nd declension. *

Ordnance Survey - Stirling county, OS Name Books - Stirling county - Volume 6 - Parish of Buchanan, OS1/32/6

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

Ordnance Survey - Stirling 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 Stirling, which is in central Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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