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Details| English name | Wemyss Bay | | Gaelic name | Bàgh Wemyss | | Meaning | bay of the caves |
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Location and type of place name| Location | North Ayrshire | | Local authority | Inverclyde ~ Inbhir Chluaidh | | Parish post 1891 | | | County post 1891 | | | Topographical feature type | | | Post town | WEMYSS BAY | | Postcode area | PA18 | | OS sheet number | 341 | | OS grid reference | NS193685 | | Type of name | Place ~ Àite |
Elements| Element meaning | G bàgh ~ bay; uamh ~ cave | | Element type | |
External ResourcesFurther Information| Language notes | | | Sources |
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Wemys Point, Wemys Bay | 1796 Ainslie/Renfrew
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Wemyss Bay, Wemyss Point | 1820 Thomson
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Weems Pt | 1856 Admiralty Chart 2159 |
| | Additional info | Port Wemyss in Islay is as intelligible as Wemyss Bay on the Clyde. MacKinnon, 'Place-names and Personal names in Argyll' 1887
J. Boyd, Guide to Wemyss Bay, 1879 seems to be the source of the derivation of this name from uamh, 'cave', doubtless by analogy with Weems in Fife. It says, however, that it relates to subterranean Pictish dwellings, an idea now discredited. It also says no caves have been found in the area.
This name is most likely transferred from either the surname or another place-name.
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