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King, Jacob

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Aberkarf

Curtis, Liz

Tarbat or Not Tarbat? Was There a Portage on the Tarbat Peninsula?

The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 8, 2014, 171–72
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Dr Alan G. James read English philology and medieval literature at Oxford, 
then spent 30 years in school teaching, training teachers and research in 
modern linguistics. He maintained his interest in place-name studies through 
membership of the English Place-Name Society, the Society for Name Studies 
in Britain and Ireland and the Scottish Place-Name Society. After retiring, 
he spent a year as a Visiting Scholar in Cambridge University’s Department 
of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, studying Celtic philology. Since then, 
he has been working on the linguistic history of Northumbria and the Old 
North. ‘The Brittonic Language in the Old North: a guide to the place-name 
elements’ is on the SPNS web-site, <www.spns.org.uk>.
In 2008 Dr Jacob King completed a PhD entitled Analytical Tools for 
Toponymy: Their Application to Scottish Hydronymy. This used computational 
methods to discover underlying patterns in toponymy, focussing on Scottish 
river names. Since that year he has worked for Ainmean Àite na h-Alba; this 
is a national advisory partnership to research and establish the correct and 
appropriate Gaelic forms of place-names for maps, signage and general use. 
His current role is to undertake the academic research to fulfil these aims; 
he is also partially responsible for developing and maintaining the online 
database. He is a committee member of the Scottish Place-name Society and 
on the panel of reviewers for The Journal of Scottish Name Studies, as well as the 
author of a number of articles. As part of his work, he recently collaborated 
on two books for the ‘Gaelic in the Landscape’ series published by Scottish 
Natural Heritage: ‘Place-names in Islay and Jura’ and ‘the Place-names of 
the Rough Bounds of Lochaber’, which were compiled using information 
gathered from local informants. Other interests include the place-names of 
Highland Perthshire, as well as the place-name field-work of Gaelic scholars 
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 
Until recently, Dr Peter McNiven was a research associate at the University 
of Glasgow, working on the AHRC-funded Scottish Toponomy in Transition 
project. The chief outputs for this project are the place-name volumes for the 
pre-1975 counties of Kinross-shire, Clackmannanshire and Menteith, the last 
of which is based on my 2011 PhD. He is currently working freelance and 
has recently done work for the Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust on Glenshee 
place-names and the legends of Finn mac Cumhaill.
Dr Simon Taylor has been working in various aspects of Scottish place-name 
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studies since the early 1990s, including the production of detailed surveys of 
Fife (5 volumes, 2006–2012), Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire (1 volume 
each, forthcoming). He is employed half-time as a lecturer at the University of 
Glasgow. Editor of JSNS since its inception in 2007, he is now co-editor with 
Richard Cox.
Is ann à Muile a tha Alasdair C. MacIlleBhàin is e stèidhichte ann an roinn 
na Ceiltis is na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu far a bheil e na oileanach PhD. 
Ga stiùireadh tha an Dotair Simon Taylor agus an t-Ollamh Thomas Owen 
Clancy. Choisinn e MRes aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu, a thràchdas stèidhichte air 
buaidh na Lochlannaise air ainmeannan-àite ann am Forsa, Muile. Is e cuspair 
a’ PhD aige ainmeannan-àite ann an sgìreachd Thorosaigh (Cill Eathain) ann 
am Muile. A thuillidh air rannsachadh ainmeannan, bidh e a’ cur ùidh ann 
an cànanachas, litreachas agus òrain. 
Alasdair C. Whyte from the Inner Hebridean island of Mull is a PhD student 
in Celtic and Gaelic at the University of Glasgow. He is supervised by Dr 
Simon Taylor and Professor Thomas Owen Clancy. He was awarded an MRes 
at the same university, his dissertation focussing on the toponymic evidence 
for Norse settlement in Forsa, Mull. The subject of his PhD is the toponymy 
of the parish of Torosay (Killean), Mull. In addition to name studies, his 
research interests include linguistics, literature and song.
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County abbreviations for Scotland, England and Wales (pre-1975)
ABD Aberdeenshire KNT Kent
AGL Anglesey LAN Lanarkshire
ANG Angus LEI Leicestershire
ARG Argyllshire LIN Lincolnshire
AYR Ayrshire LNC Lancashire
BDF Bedfordshire MDX Middlesex
BNF Banffshire MER Merionethshire
BRE Brecknockshire MLO Midlothian
BRK Berkshire MON Monmouthshire
BTE Bute MOR Morayshire
BUC Buckinghamshire MTG Montgomeryshire
BWK Berwickshire NAI Nairnshire
CAI Caithness NFK Norfolk
CAM Cambridgeshire NTB Northumberland
CHE Cheshire NTP Northamptonshire
CLA Clackmannanshire NTT Nottinghamshire
CMB Cumberland ORK Orkney
CNW Cornwall OXF Oxfordshire
CRD Cardiganshire PEB Peeblesshire
CRM Carmarthenshire PEM Pembrokeshire
CRN Caernarvonshire PER Perthshire
DEN Denbighshire RAD Radnorshire
DEV Devon RNF Renfrewshire
DMF Dumfriesshire ROS Ross and Cromarty
DNB Dunbartonshire ROX Roxburghshire
DOR Dosetshire RUT Rutland
DRB Derbyshire SFK Suffolk
DRH Durham SHE Shetland
ELO East Lothian SHR Shropshire
ESX Essex SLK Selkirkshire
FIF Fife SOM Somerset
FLI Flintshire SSX Sussex
GLA Glamorgan STF Staffordshire
GLO Gloucestershire STL Stirlingshire
GTL Greater London SUR Surrey
HMP Hampshire SUT Sutherland
HNT Huntingdonshire WAR Warwickshire
HRE Herefordshire WIG Wigtownshire
HRT Hertfordshire WLO West Lothian
INV Inverness-shire WLT Wiltshire
IOM Isle of Man WML Westmoreland
IOW Isle of Wight WOR Worcestershire
KCB Kirkcudbrightshire YOE Yorkshire (East Riding)
KCD Kincardineshire YON Yorkshire (North Riding)
KNR Kinross-shire YOW Yorkshire (West Riding)


Whyte, Christopher

Confessions of a Chinese Beetle: or, Reflections on Writing Poetry in Gaelic in the Twenty-first Century

Ní Annracháin, Máire

Television and the Novel: Cùmhnantan and An Claíomh Solais

Biddy Jenkinson’s Limbo poems

Patterson, William

Oliver Castle, Upper Tweeddale

The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 11, 2017, 118
The Journal of Scottish Name Studies
County abbreviations for Scotland, England and Wales (pre-1975)
ABD Aberdeenshire KNT Kent
AGL Anglesey LAN Lanarkshire
ANG Angus LEI Leicestershire
ARG Argyllshire LIN Lincolnshire
AYR Ayrshire LNC Lancashire
BDF Bedfordshire MDX Middlesex
BNF Banffshire MER Merionethshire
BRE Brecknockshire MLO Midlothian
BRK Berkshire MON Monmouthshire
BTE Bute MOR Morayshire
BUC Buckinghamshire MTG Montgomeryshire
BWK Berwickshire NAI Nairnshire
CAI Caithness NFK Norfolk
CAM Cambridgeshire NTB Northumberland
CHE Cheshire NTP Northamptonshire
CLA Clackmannanshire NTT Nottinghamshire
CMB Cumberland ORK Orkney
CNW Cornwall OXF Oxfordshire
CRD Cardiganshire PEB Peeblesshire
CRM Carmarthenshire PEM Pembrokeshire
CRN Caernarvonshire PER Perthshire
DEN Denbighshire RAD Radnorshire
DEV Devon RNF Renfrewshire
DMF Dumfriesshire ROS Ross and Cromarty
DNB Dunbartonshire ROX Roxburghshire
DOR Dorsetshire RUT Rutland
DRB Derbyshire SFK Suffolk
DRH Durham SHE Shetland
ELO East Lothian SHR Shropshire
ESX Essex SLK Selkirkshire
FIF Fife SOM Somerset
FLI Flintshire SSX Sussex
GLA Glamorgan STF Staffordshire
GLO Gloucestershire STL Stirlingshire
GTL Greater London SUR Surrey
HMP Hampshire SUT Sutherland
HNT Huntingdonshire WAR Warwickshire
HRE Herefordshire WIG Wigtownshire
HRT Hertfordshire WLO West Lothian
INV Inverness-shire WLT Wiltshire
IOM Isle of Man WML Westmoreland
IOW Isle of Wight WOR Worcestershire
KCB Kirkcudbrightshire YOE Yorkshire (East Riding)
KCD Kincardineshire YON Yorkshire (North Riding)
KNR Kinross-shire YOW Yorkshire (West Riding)


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Aitchison, Nick

Pictish *pont ‘bridge’ as a place-name element: Pitpointie in its wider contexts

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Notes on Contributors

Aberkarf

Tarbat or Not Tarbat? Was There a Portage on the Tarbat Peninsula?

Notes on Contributors

Confessions of a Chinese Beetle: or, Reflections on Writing Poetry in Gaelic in the Twenty-first Century

Television and the Novel: Cùmhnantan and An Claíomh Solais

Biddy Jenkinson’s Limbo poems

Oliver Castle, Upper Tweeddale

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Pictish *pont ‘bridge’ as a place-name element: Pitpointie in its wider contexts

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