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Details| English name | Erray | | Gaelic name | An Eirbhe | | Meaning | the fence or wall |
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Location and type of place name| Location | Mull, Firth of Lorn, Argyll | | Local authority | | | Parish post 1891 | | | County post 1891 | | | Topographical feature type | | | Post town | ISLE OF MULL | | Postcode area | PA75 | | OS sheet number | | | OS grid reference | NM503561 | | Type of name | Place ~ Àite |
Elements| Element meaning | G eirbhe ~ fence, wall | | Element type | |
External ResourcesFurther Information| Language notes | G fem. sg. def. art an + nom. sg. eirbhe, fem. `fence, wall' | | Sources | | | Additional info | Erray Rd leads to Erray House to the North and Druim Erray (Druim nan Erray 1881 OS 6 inch
edn.) further North; there is also Coille nan Erray. Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of
Scotland says: 'At Erray (an Eirbhe, the outlying part of a farm)... In olden times a wall (or turf)
was commonly built to separate the crop land from the hill ground, and was known as Gàradh bràgh'd
or upper wall. The ground above the Gàradh bràgh'd was known as the Eirbhe." The neighbouring
names above containing the genitive plural article suggests the original name might have been plural,
however the single has been used given the absence of any evidence of a nominative plural form and
any corroborating evidence from non OS forms.
See Place Names of Mull, 157 and Watson 1926, 479-480 for other examples. |
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