CLOG (Univ. of Glasgow)

Black, Ronald

English

Some Notes from my Glasgow Scrapbook, 1500–1800

Whyte, Christopher

MacIlleBhàin, Crìsdean

Sorley MacLean’s ‘Dàin do Eimhir’: new light from the Aberdeen holdings

Editors, The

Na deasaichean, Na

Titles of Other Papers Given at the Conference

Editor, The

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Notes on Contributors
Dr George Broderick is currently Professor of Celtic Studies at the 
University of Mannheim, Germany. His main area of research over the years 
has been Manx Gaelic language and literature and he has published widely 
on that subject, notably A Handbook of Late Spoken Manx 3 vols. (Tübingen: 
Niemeyer 1984‒86), Language Death in the Isle of Man (Tübingen: Niemeyer 
1999) and Place-Names of the Isle of Man 7 vols. (Tübingen: Niemeyer 
1994‒2005). In recent years he has branched out into other aspects of place-
names, publishing his ‘Names for Britain and Ireland Revisited’ (Beiträge zur 
Namenforschung 44.2, 2009) as well as his article on ‘Some island names in 
the former “Kingdom of the Isles”: a reappraisal’, JSNS 7 (2013), 1‒28, and 
in other realms of Celtic and Classical Studies.
Dr Fiona Edmonds is Senior Lecturer in Celtic History at the Department 
of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. She has a 
particular interest in the personal names and place-names of northern 
England and southern Scotland. She was recently the Co-Investigator on the 
AHRC-funded project ‘Hagiography at the Frontiers: Jocelin of Furness and 
Insular Politics’. The project involved collaboration with Dr Clare Downham 
(University of Liverpool) and Dr Ingrid Sperber.
Dr Simon Taylor has been working in various aspects of Scottish place-name 
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.
Dr Eila Williamson is a research associate in the School of Critical Studies 
(English Language) at the University of Glasgow. She was a researcher on the 
AHRC-funded Scottish Toponymy in Transition project (2011‒2014) and is 
a member of the Scottish Place-Name Society. A former editor of the Innes 
Review, she is currently a trustee of the Society for Scottish Medieval and 
Renaissance Studies.



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Ó Baoill, Colm

Saint Fittick: Some Linguistic Light?

Young, Sheila

The Eternal Ascent: an exploratory treatise on mountain route names

Whyte, Alasdair C.

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Review
Alan Macniven, The Vikings in Islay: the place of names in Hebridean settlement 
history. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2015. xi + 419 pp. £25. ISBN 978-19-06-56662-3.
The Vikings in Islay is a study of place-names on the Inner Hebridean island of 
Islay. It has been well received in Scottish literary circles, having been shortlisted 
for a Saltire Society Literary Award in 2016. It is easy to see why. Macniven’s 
writing is fluent and informative and the book’s accessibility will appeal to 
place-name scholars and lay readers alike.
The book’s accessibility is thanks in no small part to its considered structure. 
It is divided into two parts: an extended prose investigation of context and 
analysis (Part 1), and the place-name survey (Part 2). Part 1, which is helpfully 
presented in chapters which themselves are divided into sections under 
useful subheadings, has two main objectives. Initially, Macniven discusses the 
scope and limitations of place-names as tools for historians in general terms. 
Thereafter, the place-names of Islay are employed as evidence to support the 
main thesis: that there was an intense, large-scale and culturally transformative 
plantation of Norse settlers in Islay during the Viking Age. Readers of this journal 
will no doubt be familiar with this view, which was presented in the author’s 
2006 doctoral thesis, awarded by the University of Edinburgh, where he is now 
a senior lecturer and Head of Scandinavian Studies.1
The book has many strengths, besides the fluent and accessible writing style. 
In chapter 1, Macniven laudably stresses the importance of local toponymic 
research, highlighting that textual sources provide only one surviving reference 
to Islay between the mid-eighth century and the mid-12th century. The accessible 
and informative discussion of onomastic theory in chapter 2 will be appreciated 
by the uninitiated and by place-name scholars alike, particularly given its 
engagement with the recent work of Scandinavian academics in this field. Islay’s 
known history is comprehensively covered in chapter 3, a chapter which also 
includes a useful historiographical section. This leads Macniven into a critique 
of Captain F. W. L. Thomas’s toponymic analysis of Islay published in 1881‒82.2 
Also in chapter 3, Macniven identifies the centrality of Stephen MacDougall’s 
‘Map of the Island of Islay’, produced in 1749‒51, to his study. Chapter 4 provides 
1 Alan Macniven, 2006, ‘The Norse in Islay: a settlement historical case-study for 
medieval Scandinavian activity in Western Maritime Scotland’, unpublished doctoral 
thesis, University of Edinburgh. See also Alan Macniven, 2013, ‘Modelling Viking 
Migration to the Inner Hebrides’, Journal of the North Atlantic 4 (sp4), 3‒18.
2 F. W. L. Thomas, 1881‒82, ‘On Islay Place-Names’, Proceedings of the Society of 
Antiquaries of Scotland 16, 241‒76.
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further insight into Macniven’s methodology, including his innovative use of 
MacDougall’s map, and this chapter acts as a key to the place-name survey 
in Part 2. Macniven’s analysis of MacDougall’s map and the author’s own 
distribution maps – for which MacDougall’s map frequently provides the matrix 
– are outstanding features of the book. Maps are complemented by detailed 
statistical analysis and illustrative tables. In chapter 6, there is innovative use 
of Thiessen polygons in plotting areal extents of units based on cill-names 
and Macniven’s analysis of the island’s idiosyncratic and complicated land-
assessment structures is both commendable and insightful. Macniven draws 
his conclusions and proposes his model for local Norse settlement in chapter 7, 
within the context of language contact and local archaeology.
The place-name survey in Part 2 is as accessible as the prose which precedes 
it and it constitutes an important new resource for lay readers and place-name 
scholars wishing to engage with etymological analysis of individual place-
names in Islay. Macniven’s key to the survey is a helpful inclusion, particularly 
given that the survey’s layout is based on a number of different models. The 
maps which depict the location of each individual settlement in the survey are 
an excellent inclusion. Pronunciations are recorded from oral forms collected 
in a series of interviews with local informants and, besides being invaluable 
to Macniven’s etymological analysis, these transcriptions will be of interest to 
readers wishing to engage with local dialects. Analysis of the names themselves 
is generally well-informed.
The glossary of place-name elements which follows the survey is another 
worthwhile inclusion; as is the chronologically-ordered list of sources for early 
forms. The latter provides the reader with a sense of the period spanned by these 
sources at a glance. Also useful is the index of place-names which precedes the 
general index.
While the book has many strengths, there are some features which might 
be improved. The place-name index itself would benefit from clearer cross-
referencing to the main sections of analysis for individual names in the place-
name survey. This could easily be achieved by emboldening the font of relevant 
page numbers.
The glossary of elements, too, would benefit from cross-referencing to the 
place-name survey. Without these cross-references, the reader cannot navigate 
from the glossary to place-names in the survey in which any given individual 
element is proposed. If included, these cross-references would also provide the 
reader with a sense of the frequency of each element at a glance.
Macniven’s analysis of Gaelic place-names and Gaelic elements is frequently 
insecure. There are a number of orthographic issues which should be highlighted 
here. There is a general lack of attention to detail as regards Gaelic terms and 
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there are some inaccuracies. For example, Ilich ‘people from Islay’ (p. 2) should 
be Ìlich. Miniugud (p. 2) is correctly Míniugud. ‘the dynasty of Gábrain’ (p. 82) is 
correctly ‘the dynasty of Gabrán’. The non-standardised spelling tigh (p. 71) for 
taigh should be avoided.
Macniven’s analysis of the Gaelic element baile betrays a lack of engagement 
with the relevant literature. The statement that pre-Norse use of Old Gaelic 
baile was ‘limited in meaning to the concept of “wall” or “enclosure” ’ (p. 67) 
is inaccurate and misleading. Baile is principally defined as ‘place; settlement; 
farm, farmstead’ in the Dictionary of the Irish Language3 and, as Simon Taylor 
has pointed out, application as ‘(main) dwelling-place, place of habitation’ is 
‘certainly the meaning of baile which can be gleaned from OG [Old Gaelic] 
sources’.4 Macniven’s definition appears to relate to Old Gaelic balla, defined as 
‘wall, rampart’, which is in fact an English loan-word.5 
There are other fundamental issues in the glossary which are potentially 
misleading. Macniven’s inclusion of alternative spellings of elements is useful 
but there is a lack of clarity as regards the categorisation of these alternatives; in 
other words, whether they are alternative spellings, i.e. variants, or scotticised/
anglicised forms. Auch, for example, is a scotticised/anglicised form of the Gaelic 
element achadh, rather than an alternative spelling of the Gaelic element, as it 
is presented (p. 360). Similarly, eabric is a scotticised/anglicised form of Gaelic 
eabarach (p. 361). There is a need for clarification here.
Some lenited forms of nouns are presented as nominatives in the glossary; 
e.g. ‘rhubha’ (p. 363), correctly rubha. Caillich is defined as ‘old woman’ (p. 
361) but this is in fact an oblique case-form of the Gaelic term which is in the 
nominative singular cailleach. Gaelic caistel (p. 361) is better caisteal.
There is a degree of carelessness, too, as regards personal names and other 
proper nouns of Gaelic origin. Choman (p. 361), for example, is a lenited, 
anglicised form of the hagionym best recorded in the nominative as Commán.6 
In analysis of Kilchoman (p. 330), it is inaccurate to propose the name’s specific 
element as ‘Choman’, as Macniven does, rather than recording the nominative 
form of the personal name in Gaelic orthography.
It seems insufficient to state in the introduction to the glossary that there 
is a ‘certain amount of inconsistency in spelling’ due to the fact that ‘forms of 
place-names and etymological suggestions recorded in the survey have been 
3 eDIL, s.v. 1 baile, <http://dil.ie/5186>.
4 Simon Taylor with Gilbert Márkus, 2012, The Place-Names of Fife Vol. 5 (Donington: 
Shaun Tyas), 225.
5 eDIL, s.v. balla, <http://dil.ie/5300>.
6 See, for example, Commán in the Database of Scottish Hagiotoponyms: <http://
saintsplaces.gla.ac.uk/saint.php?id=741> ‒ accessed 29/12/16.
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drawn from a range of different sources’ (p. 357). This statement in fact betrays 
an over-reliance on previous toponymic surveys of Islay as regards the Gaelic 
names analysed in the survey. In many cases, Macniven relies on the work of H. 
Cameron Gillies whose The Place-Names of Argyll, published in 1906,7 has been 
subject to damning critiques from the likes of Alexander Macbain8 and, more 
recently, Ian A. Fraser.9 One particularly unstable etymology is that proposed 
by Macniven, following Gillies, for Eacharnach in Kilmeny parish (p. 262). The 
proposed etymology is Gaelic each ‘horse’ + Gaelic suffix ar(n)ach, giving a 
proposed meaning of ‘Place of the Horses’. A combination of the three place-
name-forming suffixes -ar, -an and -ach has been proposed in other names by 
the likes of Watson10 but, besides the fact that the construction of the proposed 
suffix is unexplained, the putative etymology does not account for the consistent 
v/w recorded in each of the historical forms. Over-reliance on previous studies 
means that Macniven’s analysis of Gaelic names tends to fall short.
Macniven’s analysis of Islay’s Old Norse names is more secure and a 
particularly strong aspect of this analysis is his discussion of parallel names 
in Norway and Iceland. Nevertheless, some interpretations are less convincing 
than others. The consistent -still, -stoll and -stole recorded in the earliest forms 
of Scanistle in Kilmeny parish, for example, suggest that the name’s generic is 
Old Norse stǫðul(l), probably best defined as ‘(cattle-)milking-place’, rather than 
the proposed Old Norse staðir (p. 279). Variation in later historical forms and in 
recorded modern pronunciations may reflect the influence of Scottish Standard 
English town, or Scots toun, as Macniven suggests, but Old Norse stǫðul(l) is a 
more convincing generic, on the basis of the name’s earliest forms and, indeed, 
the name’s modern orthography.
In more general terms, Macniven’s approach to etymological analysis might 
also be controversial for place-name scholars. In outlining his approach in 
chapter 4, Macniven identifies the three stages of his analytical process (p. 35‒41). 
The first stage is that the body of linguistic evidence is collated and scrutinised. 
The second involves corroboration through comparison with parallels. The 
third stage is consideration of topographical context. Surprisingly, Macniven 
considers only the first of these to be prerequisite, stating that ‘the next two are 
only employed if the result of the first stage is considered ambiguous’ (p. 41). 
7 H. Cameron Gillies, 1906, The Place-Names of Argyll (London: David Nutt).
8 Alexander Macbain, 1922, Place Names, Highlands & Islands of Scotland (Stirling: 
Eneas MacKay), 339–57.
9 Ian A. Fraser, 1985, ‘The Place-Names of Argyll – An Historical Perspective’, 
Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness 54, 174–207: 175.
10 W. J. Watson, 1904, Place-Names of Ross and Cromarty (Inverness: The Northern 
Counties Printing and Publishing Company, Limited), xxxix.
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Consideration of topographical context is surely prerequisite in analysis of all 
place-names.
Macniven’s overarching thesis is controversial and it will no doubt be the 
subject of debate, as it has been since it was presented in his doctoral thesis. 
Specific aspects of Macniven’s analysis might be questioned here. For example, 
Macniven concludes that ‘none of the Gaelic settlement names on MacDougall’s 
map can be proved to be pre-Norse’ and that ‘there are strong grounds for dating 
many, if not all of them, to the 11th or 12th centuries or even later’ (p. 80). As 
such, in discussion of ecclesiastical sites and cill-names in localities identified 
as having the greatest proportions of Gaelic names on the island (pp. 55‒60), 
Macniven concentrates on the fact that none of the chapels appear to predate 
the Viking Age (p. 61). Conspicuous in their absence from this discussion, 
however, are the Early Christian monuments in these localities which might 
be viewed as potential indicators of local cultural and linguistic continuity 
from the Early Christian period through the Norse period, in light of supporting 
toponymic evidence. For example, the ‘two supposedly early Christian cross 
slabs’ situated near the parish church at Kilchoman, which is located within 
the first locality discussed in this section of the book, are referred to in the 
place-name survey in the entry for Kilchoman (p. 331); they are not, however, 
considered in the discursive analysis of the locality’s toponymy in the relevant 
section in Part 1.
In the same chapter, Macniven sets a dangerous precedent in suggesting 
that, because many of the Gaelic names containing the most common Gaelic 
generics are ‘simple and self-evident references to the landscape ... it must be 
wondered whether they are not in fact translations of Old Norse predecessors’ 
(p. 63); i.e. rather than being Gaelic names coined independently of any pre-
existing Norse tradition. Without supporting evidence, this suggestion appears 
rather tendentious.
There is a tendency, too, to a Norse-centric view of linguistic development 
in Scottish Gaelic in chapter 7. Macniven’s proposal that post-medieval Gaelic 
in the West Highlands represents ‘a language which has been learned by native-
speakers of Old Norse’ (p. 106‒07) is controversial. While Macniven refers to 
Pavel Iosad’s recent work on pitch accent and prosodic structure in Scottish 
Gaelic11 – it is cited in an endnote removed from the main discussion (p. 378) – 
there is no acknowledgement of the view of several Ireland- and Scotland-based 
commentators that preaspiration, for example, could have been a Northern 
11 Pavel Iosad, 2015, ‘ “Pitch accent” and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: 
reassessing the role of contact’, in New Trends in Nordic and General Linguistics, ed. 
Martin Hilpert et al. (Berlin: De Gruyter), 29‒54.
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Gaelic innovation; i.e. an internal development.12 Indeed, Iosad has recently 
cogently argued that there is little evidence that Norse preaspiration can have 
been a source for Gaelic preaspiration and that both preaspiration and tonal 
accents in Gaelic are pan-Northern Gaelic innovations.13 Macniven’s analysis 
betrays a lack of engagement with the wider literature on the topic.
Nevertheless, The Vikings in Islay undoubtedly increases our understanding 
of Islay’s history through analysis of the island’s place-names. The 600-plus 
names which are analysed in total in the volume – around half of which are 
examined ‘in fine detail’ (p. vi) – represent a marked increase from the 162 
non-English names analysed in the aforementioned 1881‒82 study by Thomas 
which, as Macniven points out, is the only other systematic, island-wide 
survey of Islay’s place-names previously published. Macniven’s objective – to 
provide valuable clues to the nature of settlement and societal development 
by way of a contextualised appraisal of local place-names (p. 120) – is laudable 
and this objective is met, particularly in the analysis of Old Norse names. The 
book’s accessibility for the lay reader is a notable accomplishment. It will 
be a disappointment for Gaelic-speaking readers, however, that analysis of 
Islay’s Gaelic names falls short. Macniven all too often reiterates the insecure 
etymologies of previous studies. Nevertheless, The Vikings in Islay is a valuable 
contribution to Hebridean place-name studies and it provides an important 
new resource for place-name scholars. Macniven has developed a thesis in 
relation to Islay’s history in the Norse period which may now be compared and 
contrasted in future toponymic analysis of neighbouring islands and mainland 
regions. The £25 price-tag is reasonable for a paperback volume of this size.
Alasdair C. Whyte, University Of Glasgow
12 See, for example, Dónall P. Ó Baoill, 1980, ‘Preaspiration, epenthesis and vowel 
lengthening: interrelated and of similar origin?’, Celtica 13, 79–108; Máirtín Ó Murchú, 
1985, ‘Varia VIII. Devoicing and pre-aspiration in varieties of Scots Gaelic’, Ériu 36, 195–
98; Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh, 2010, ‘The sound of silence: some structural observations 
on preaspiration in Scottish Gaelic’, in Bile ós Chrannaibh: A Festschrift for William 
Gillies, eds Wilson McLeod, Abigail Burnyeat, Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, Thomas 
Owen Clancy and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (Ceann Drochaid: Clann Tuirc), 365–404.
13 Pavel Iosad, 2015, ‘Preaspiration and tonal accents as Northern Gaelic features: 
Reconsidering contact origins’, handout from paper presented at the 15th International 
Congress of Celtic Studies, Glasgow, 16 July 2015; online at <http://www.research.
ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/preaspiration-and-tonal-accents-as-northern-
gaelic-features(cbedc859-4de8-4cb0-afe4-70eb583f7bc1).html> ‒ accessed 30/11/16.


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Notes on Contributors
Dr George Broderick is currently Professor of Celtic Studies at the University 
of Mannheim, Germany. His main area of research over the years has been 
Manx Gaelic language and literature and he has published widely on that 
subject, notably A Handbook of Late Spoken Manx 3 vols. (Tübingen: Niemeyer 
1984‒86), Language Death in the Isle of Man (Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999) and 
Place-Names of the Isle of Man 7 vols. (Tübingen: Niemeyer 1994‒2005). In 
recent years he has branched out into other aspects of place-names, publishing 
his ‘Names for Britain and Ireland Revisited’ (Beiträge zur Namenforschung 
44.2, 2009) as well as his article on ‘Some island names in the former “Kingdom 
of the Isles”: a reappraisal’, JSNS 7 (2013), 1‒28, and in other realms of Celtic 
and Classical Studies.
Professor Thomas Owen Clancy holds the Chair of Celtic at the University of 
Glasgow, where he has taught since 1995. He has been Principal Investigator for
a number of recent place-name projects, including most recently the AHRC-
funded ‘Scottish Toponymy in Transition’ (2011‒2014) and the Leverhulme-
funded ‘Commemorations of Saints in Scottish Place-Names’ (2010‒2013). He is 
a former editor of The Innes Review and is joint series editor of The International 
Companions to Scottish Literature. He is Director of the Survey of Scottish Place-
Names.
Liz Curtis is a member of the Scottish Place-Name Society and lives in Dunbar. 
She began her interest in place-names while living in Belfast and learning Irish 
Gaelic. In 2006/7 she took an MSc course in Scottish Studies at the University 
of Edinburgh, where she wrote a dissertation on place-names on the Tarbat 
peninsula, supervised by the late Dr Doreen Waugh. This was later published as 
‘Tarbat or not Tarbat? Was there a portage on the Tarbat peninsula?’, JSNS 5, 2011, 
1–34. Since then she has concentrated mainly on place-names in East Lothian 
and enjoys responding to local enquiries about the subject. She is particularly 
interested in how place-names illuminate history and archaeology, and vice versa.
Dr Peter Drummond has a degree in sociology, which goes to prove that one 
can come to onomastics from any direction. He became interested in place-
names while working on a history of the Coatbridge area, where he worked in 
the early 1980s, and this led to Place-Names of the Monklands a few years later. 
He then turned his toponymic focus to his main hobby, hill-walking, and in the 
early 1990s the Scottish Mountaineering Trust published his Scottish Hill and 
Mountain Names, which met with considerable success. In spring 2007, it was 
re-published as Scottish Hill Names, a title change reflecting a large amount of re-
structuring and the addition of new material. He undertook an MSc by Research 
at the University of Edinburgh in 2006 on ‘The Hill Names of Southern Scotland’. 
He gained a PhD from Glasgow University in 2014, for his thesis ‘An analysis of 
toponyms and toponymic patterns in eight parishes of the upper Kelvin basin’. 
He has served as Treasurer for the Scottish Place-Name Society for many years, 
and as its Convenor for three years.
Dr Simon Taylor has been working in various aspects of Scottish place-name 
studies since the early 1990s, including the production of detailed surveys of Fife 
(5 volumes, 2006‒2012), Kinross-shire (1 volume, 2017) and Clackmannanshire 
(1 volume, forthcoming). He is employed half-time as a reader in Scottish Name 
Studies at the University of Glasgow. Editor of JSNS since its inception in 2007, he 
is now co-editor with Richard Cox.


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AGL Anglesey LAN Lanarkshire
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BTE Bute MOR Morayshire
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