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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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County Stirling

[Notes under Creag an Iubhair:]
Creag an Iubhair } sing. [singular]
........................or }
Creag nan Iubhar } plur. [plural]?
"Creag" - and "Iubhair" The Yew tree

Iubhar or Iughar or Iuthar - Is inflected as a mas. [masculine] noun by every writer of Gaelic see Ossian's poems
and other Gaelic compositions - It will not admit

[Note under Sgiath Gileabairt:]
"Sgiath" - shelter, shield
Gileabairt, Gilbert's
A proper name mas. [masculine] is apirated
in the genitive, as, Sgìan Shéumais, James' Knife &c
Except - A proper name beginning with D. or T. governed
by a noun ending in N.

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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