CLOG (Univ. of Glasgow)

Dymock, Emma

English

Sorley MacLean’s ‘Overture’: A study of Douglas Young’s introduction to ‘An Cuilithionn’

Meek, Donald

Meek, Dòmhnall

Faking the ‘True Gael’? Carmina Gadelica and the Beginning  of Modern Gaelic Scholarship

Clancy, Thomas Owen

Die like a man? The Ulster Cycle death-tale anthology

Nic Lochlainn, Sorcha

Making the foreign familiar: the Gaelicisation of the classical ballad

Linkletter, Michael

‘Unless I publish them, they are likely to perish’: The publishing activities of Alexander Maclean Sinclair, 1880–1904

Byrne, Michel

Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic

Cò leis a’ Mhuir? Deòrsa Caimbeul Hay, Coinneach MacLeòid agus an Ciaradh Gàidhealach

MacGill-Eain, Somhairle

Five Gaelic poems – regional, national or European?

Sumner, Natasha

How Popean was Rob Donn? A study in intertextuality

Taylor, Simon

The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 14 (2020), 176–80 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SCOTTISH NAME STUDIES FOR 2019 
 
SIMON TAYLOR 
University of Glasgow 
 
The aim of this bibliography is to present, in a continuous list arranged 
alphabetically by author, all relevant articles, chapters in edited books, 
monographs, e-books and PhDs (most of which are now available on-line) 
which appeared in 2019. It is then followed by a Reviews section, and finally by 
a section on new digital resources.  
This bibliography does not cover the shorter articles, often illustrated, on a 
wide range of Scottish toponymic themes which appear in Scottish Place-Name 
News (SPNNews), the excellent twice-yearly newsletter of the Scottish Place-
Name Society [SPNS]. This publication also includes summaries of the papers 
given at the SPNS spring and autumn conferences. Note that all back issues, 
apart from the latest two, are available free on the SPNS website at: 
http://spns.org.uk/scottish-place-name-news.  
For extensive bibliographies of name studies in Britain and Ireland and, less 
comprehensively, other parts of northern Europe, see the bibliographic sections 
in the relevant issues of Nomina, the journal of the Society for Name Studies in 
Britain and Ireland. The material in these Nomina bibliographies is set out 
thematically and includes relevant reviews which have appeared in the given 
year. 
I would be very pleased to hear from anyone who spots any omissions or 
errors in the following bibliography. I can be contacted via the JSNS website and 
on <simon.taylor@glasgow.ac.uk> . Also, I would be glad to receive notice of 
anything published in 2020 for inclusion in JSNS 15. 
In order to make it easier for the reader to find their way around, I have put 
in bold not only authors’ surnames but also some of the key places, persons or 
elements discussed in the individual entries. 
Appended to this bibliography is a list of some recently published websites 
dealing with localities throughout Scotland. 
I would like to thank Thomas Clancy, Carole Hough, Alan James, Peter 
McNiven and Eila Williamson for their help in compiling this bibliography. 
 
Bibliography of Scottish Name Studies for 2019 
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Aitchison, Nick, 2019, ‘Pictish *pont ‘bridge’ as a place-name element: 
Pitpointie in its wider contexts’, The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 13, 1–
36. 
Butter, Rachel, 2019, ‘Saints in Names in Late Medieval Argyll: a Preliminary 
Enquiry’, in Hammond, ed., 2019, 221–43. 
Clancy, Thomas Owen, and Hammond, Matthew, 2019, ‘The Romance of 
Names’, in Hammond, ed., 2019, 166–86. 
Coates, Richard, 2019, ‘Fetlar’, The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 13, 37–54. 
Curtis, Liz, 2019, ‘Two Old English Place-Names: Haddington and Clerkington’, 
Transactions of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists’ Society 
XXXII, 36–41. 
Cuthbertson, Katherine M. E., 2018, ‘The use of name evidence in lexicography: 
comparative analysis of onomastic data for historical and contemporary 
Scots’ unpublished PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.  
https://theses.gla.ac.uk/74257/ [completed 2019]. 
Davies, John Reuben, 2019, ‘Old Testament Personal Names in Scotland before 
the Wars of Independence’, in Hammond, ed., 2019, 187–212. 
Di Clemente, Valeria, 2019, ‘Masculine Given Names of Germanic Origin in the 
Ragman Roll (1296)’, in Hammond, ed., 2019, 148–165. 
Edmonds, Fiona, 2019, Gaelic Influence on the Northumbrian Kingdom. The 
Golden Age and the Viking Age (Woodbridge) [makes extensive use of place-
name evidence on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border including the 
Scottish Solway littoral]. 
Evans, Nicholas, 2019, ‘Personal Names in Early Medieval Gaelic Chronicles’, in 
Hammond, ed., 2019, 18–40. 
Given, Michael, Oscar Aldred, Kevin Grant, Peter McNiven, and Tessa Poller, 
2019, ‘Interdisciplinary approaches to a connected landscape: upland survey 
in the Northern Ochils’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 
148, 83–111 [place-name contribution by Peter McNiven]. Open access on the 
PSAS website. 
Hammond, Matthew, ed., 2019, Personal Names and Naming Practices in 
Medieval Scotland, Studies in Celtic History XXXIX (Woodbridge, Suffolk). 
Hammond, Matthew, 2019, ‘The Development of Mac Surnames in the Gaelic 
World’, in Hammond, ed., 2019, 100–43. 
Hough, Carole, 2019, ‘What’s in a place name?’, Historic Scotland (Autumn 2019), 
32–36. 
Simon Taylor 
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James, Alan, 2019, ‘New Thoughts on Old Place-Names: Tyninghame and 
Whittingehame’, Transactions of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field 
Naturalists’ Society XXXII, 28–35 [an edited résumé of part of his article 
‘Scotland’s –ham and –ingham names: a reconsideration’ in JSNS 4, 2010.] 
Lodge, Anthony, 2019, ‘The Feu Charters of Pittenweem Priory, 1532–1567’, The 
Journal of Scottish Name Studies 13, 55–82. 
King, Jacob (ed.), 2019, Scottish Gaelic Place-Names: The Collected Works of 
Charles M. Robertson 1864–1927 (Skye). 
King, Jacob, with Liam Crouse, 2019, Gaelic in the Landscape: the Place-Names 
of Eriskay/A’ Ghàidhlig air Aghaidh na Tìre Ainmean-àite Èirisgeigh 
(Scottish Natural Heritage and Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba). This booklet is the 
fifth in a series of place-names booklets AÀA have written for SNH. All five 
booklets are free and available as PDFs on Products (ainmean-aite.scot). 
Hard-copy of those booklets which are still in stock can be posted out at the 
cost of p & p only. 
McNiven, Peter, 2019, ‘The Pictish language and place-names in and around 
Glen Shee’, in Early Medieval Settlement in Upland Perthshire: Excavations at 
Lair, Glen Shee 2012-17, ed. David Strachan, David Sneddon and Richard 
Tipping (Glen Shee Archaeology Project), 14–16. Open access on 
http://archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/download.asp?id={31F
0CBE1-4B70-43C8-B95B-52DA5409BAB3}  
McNiven, Peter, 2019: see Given 2019. 
Noble, Gordon, and Nicholas Evans, 2019, The King in the North: The Pictish 
Realms of Fortriu and Ce (Birlinn, Edinburgh) [with contributions by 
various, including Simon Taylor on the place-name Rhynie on p. 59] 
Ó Maolalaigh, Roibeard, 2019, ‘Gaelic Personal Names and Name Elements in 
Scottish Charters, 1093–1286’, in Hammond, ed., 2019, 41–99. 
Ramaeba, Goabilwe N., 2019, ‘A Comparative Study of Linguistic and Social 
Aspects of Personal Names in Botswana and Scotland’, PhD thesis, 
University of Glasgow, http://theses.gla.ac.uk/74387/  
Sellar, David, 2019, ‘Forflissa/Forbflaith/Hvarflöð’, in Hammond, ed., 2019, 144-
7. 
Taylor, Rex, 2019, ‘Street Names and National Identities: An exploratory study 
between Montblanc, France, and Dumfries, Scotland’, The Journal of 
Scottish Name Studies 13, 83–90. 
Taylor, Simon, 2019, see Noble and Evans 2019, above. 
Bibliography of Scottish Name Studies for 2019 
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Taylor, Simon, 2019, ‘Bibliography of Name Studies for 2018’, The Journal of 
Scottish Name Studies 13, 121–23. 
Taylor, Simon, with Ronald MacLean and Jacob King, with photographs by 
Mary MacDonald, 2019, Place-Names of the Aird and Strathglass, Inverness-
shire (Kiltarlity Community Council). 
Turpie, Tom, 2019, ‘Duthac Wigmore and Ninian Wallace: Scottish Saints and 
Personal Names in the later Middle Ages’, in Hammond, ed., 2019, 213-20. 
Wilkinson, John Garth, 2019, ‘Mo-Choe Ahoy! Saintly Sightings at the Water’s 
Edge?’, The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 13, 91–114. 
 
REVIEWS 
Evemalm, Sofia, 2019, Review of King, Jacob, ed., 2019, Scottish Gaelic Place-
names: The Collected Works of Charles M. Robertson 1864–1927 (Skye), in 
Journal of Scottish Name Studies 13, 115–18. 
Cuthbertson, Katherine, 2019, Review of Puzey, Guy and Laura Kostanski, ed., 
2016, Names and Naming: People, Places, Perceptions and Power (Bristol), in 
The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 13, 118–20. 
 
NEW DIGITAL NAME RESOURCES 
Note 1. This includes digital resources which have come online in 2020 as well 
as in 2019. 
Note 2. This is not a comprehensive list. However, the intention is to publish on 
the Scottish Place-Name Society website https://spns.org.uk an inventory of all 
digital place-name resources for different regions of Scotland. 
 
Early Christianity in Uist. 
One of its aims is ‘to identify sites and place-names of interest for the early and 
medieval Christianity of Uist.’ By Thomas Clancy and Sofia Evemalm. Website 
and database constructed by Sofia Evemalm. It also contains an edition and 
translation, with notes, of ‘The Life of St Cainnech of Aghaboe’ by Gilbert 
Márkus (2018).  
https://uistsaints.co.uk  
 
Place-Names of Callander 
A detailed survey of the place-names of Callander by Peter McNiven 
Simon Taylor 
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https://www.callanderslandscape.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Gaelic-
Place-names-of-Callanders-Landscape-P-McNiven-June-2020_FINAL.pdf  
 
Place-Names of the Galloway Glens.  
A Database of place-names in the parishes of Balmaclellan, Balmaghie 
Carsphairn, Crossmichael, Dalry, Kells and Parton, by Gilbert Márkus with 
Thomas Clancy and Simon Taylor. Part of the Heritage Lottery Funded 
‘Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership’, in collaboration with the University of 
Glasgow. Note that this website also includes a series of blog-posts by Gilbert 
Márkus and Thomas Clancy on individual names and elements. 
https://kcb-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/place-names/  
 


Bibliography of Scottish Name Studies for 2019

Mathis, Kate Louise

An Ulster Tale in Breadalbane? Personae and literary allusion in the poetry of Mòr Chaimbeul

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