BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 'SCOTTISH TOPONYMICS'
compiled by Simon Taylor
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GALLOWAY (INCLUDING DUMFIRES-SHIRE)
Ansell, Michael, 2022, ‘Re-evaluatiing the Gaelic Mountain Toponymy of the Galloway Highlands’, in Galloway: The Lost Province of Gaelic Scotland, ed. Michael Ansell, Ronald Black and Edward J. Cowan (John Dewar Publishers Ltd), 173-224.
Brooke, D. 1983 ‘Kirk-Compound Place-Names in Galloway and Carrick’, Transactions of the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society 58, 56-71.
Brooke, D., 1991, ‘The Northumbrian settlements in Galloway and Carrick: an historical assessment’, PSAS 121, 295-327.
[A stimulating and well-argued attempt to assess the extent and types of Northumbrian settlement in south-west Scotland in the early medieval period, using place-names, church dedications and supportive historical, topographical and archaeological evidence. It includes a very useful list of Galloway settlement-names (with early forms and analysis) deriving from Northumbrian, Cumbric, Old Norse and Gaelic.]
Clancy, Thomas Owen, 2022, ‘Place-names and Gaelic in Galloway: Names containing cill and kirk’, in Galloway: The Lost Province of Gaelic Scotland, ed. Michael Ansell, Ronald Black and Edward J. Cowan (John Dewar Publishers Ltd), 1-26.
Fellows-Jensen, G., 1991, ‘Scandinavians in Dumfriesshire and Galloway: The Place-Name Evidence’, in Galloway: Land and Lordship, eds. R.D. Oram and G.P. Stell, 77-95.
Findlater, Alex Maxwell, 2008, ‘Another Look at Bagimond’, Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society 82, 59-75 [Bagimond in Dumfries and Galloway]
Livingston, Alistair, 2022, ‘Gaelic to Scots in Galloway’, in Galloway: The Lost Province of Gaelic Scotland, ed. Michael Ansell, Ronald Black and Edward J. Cowan (John Dewar Publishers Ltd), 384-90.
MacQueen, J., 1956, ‘Kirk- and Kil- in Galloway Place-Names’, Archivum Linguisticum 8, 135-49.
MacQueen, J., 1973, ‘The Gaelic Speakers of Galloway and Carrick’, Scottish Studies 17, 17-33. [saints names in place-names]
MacQueen, J., 2002, Place-Names in the Rhinns of Galloway and Luce Valley. Stranraer and District Local History Trust.
MacQueen, John, 2008, Place-Names of the Wigtownshire Moors and Machars. Stranraer and District Local History Trust, Stranraer [covering the parishes of Glasserton, Kirkcowan, Kirkinner, Mochrum, Penninghame, Sorbie and Wigtown]
Maxwell, H.E., 1930, The Place Names of Galloway (Glasgow, reprinted 1991, Wigtown)
[to handle with care: it has the best list of names, but some wild etymologies].
Nicolaisen, W. F. H., 1959, ‘Scottish Place-names: 9 Drysdale’, Scottish Studies 3, ? -102.
Ó Maolalaigh, Roibeard, 2022, ‘The Gaelic Element in the Lexicon of Galloway Scots’, in Galloway: The Lost Province of Gaelic Scotland, ed. Michael Ansell, Ronald Black and Edward J. Cowan (John Dewar Publishers Ltd), 76-124.
Ó Maolalaigh, Roibeard, 2022, ‘Galloway Gaelic and Place-Names: Linguistic Characteristics and Dialect Affinities’, in Galloway: The Lost Province of Gaelic Scotland, ed. Michael Ansell, Ronald Black and Edward J. Cowan (John Dewar Publishers Ltd), 281-383.
Oram, Richard D., 1995, ‘Scandinavian settlement in south-west Scotland with a special study of Bysbie’, in Scandinavian Settlement in Northern Britain, ed. B.E. Crawford (London), 127-40.
Oram, Richard, 2022, ‘Dabhach- and Ceathramh-Names: Fragments of a Lost Assessment System?’, in Galloway: The Lost Province of Gaelic Scotland, ed. Michael Ansell, Ronald Black and Edward J. Cowan (John Dewar Publishers Ltd), 45-60
Parker, Michael, 2012, ‘An Eighth-century Reference to the Monastery at Hoddom’, Journal of Scottish Name Studies 6, 51-80.