Scottish Place-Name SocietyComann Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba Day conference – Saturday 2 November 2019 Three Villages Community Hall, Arrochar, G83 7AB CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PRINTABLE BOOKING FORM (SEE ABSTRACTS BELOW) 1000–1055 Registration and coffee/tea 1055–1100 Welcome1100–1150 Sue Furness, Fiona … Continue reading “DAY CONFERENCE, 2 NOVEMBER 2019, ARROCHAR” →
This paper at the Perth conference was an introduction to the five-year Leverhulme Trust funded ‘Comparative Kingship: the early medieval Kingdoms of Northern Britain and Ireland’ project led by Dr Gordon Noble in the Archaeology department of the University of … Continue reading “PLACES AND LANDSCAPES OF POWER: ‘COMPARATIVE KINGSHIP: THE EARLY MEDIEVAL KINGDOMS OF NORTHERN BRITAIN AND IRELAND’ (Nicholas Evans)” →
The recent publication of The Place-Names of Kinross-shire (Shaun Tyas 2017) has served to highlight the fascinating macrotoponomy of the former county of Kinross, an area of Central Scotland surrounded by hills with Loch Leven as its chief water feature. … Continue reading “FROM THRAPPLE HOLE TO DUDGEON TREE – THE HYDRONYMS AND SHORELINE TOPONYMS OF LOCH LEVEN, KINROSS-SHIRE (David Munro)” →
Hence the Name Sources for place-name and personal name research in Scotland Conference The Scottish Place-Name Society The Scottish Records Association Saturday 17 November 2018 Netherbow Theatre, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD BOOKING FORM Speakers include Meredith … Continue reading “Day Conference, 17 November 2018, Edinburgh” →
Looking north from the isolated landmark of Tinto Hill, over the rolling landscape of mid Lanarkshire, to Greater Glasgow with the Campsie Fells (towards the right) and southern fringes of the Highlands in the distance. Motherwell is on the right … Continue reading “Tinto Hill” →
Prof Elizabeth FitzPatrick of NUI Galway has carried out a detailed study of formaoil (early formáel) names in Ireland, appearing in 35 townland names[1]. It refers to hunting grounds, in some cases identifiable as preserves of early medieval kingdoms and … Continue reading “FORMAOIL IN SCOTLAND (Bill Patterson)” →
This paper was the culmination of research and fieldwork undertaken for my PhD ‘Breaking old and new ground: a comparative study of coastal and inland naming in Berwickshire’ at Glasgow University and for the Masters in Landscape Architecture programme at … Continue reading “BOATS, BATTERIES, AND BARRICADES: SOME WAYS WATER INFLUENCES OUR PERCEPTIONS OF PLACE (Leonie Dunlop)” →
