Map Reference: Kenavara 34
Name Type: fort
Meaning: See Dùn nan Gall in Longships on the Sand.
Other Forms:
Related Places: Donegal in Ireland comes from the same root and relates to a Viking fortification as named by a Gaelic speaking population. There is another Dun nan Gall at Loch Tuath, Mull at an Iron Age broch site - JH.
Information:
Local Form:
Languages : GaelicInformants: OS
Informant 2: multiple
Informant 3: Niall M Brownlie, Bailtean is Ath Ghairmean, Argyll Publishing, 1995, p154
Leave a Reply