Township: An Àird a Tuath,Caolas

Map Reference: Aird a Tuath 300

Name Type: sub-township

Meaning: The north headland. All promontory names in Ard 'promontory' were collected by the Ordnance Survey in the masculine form Àrd, rather than the feminine Àirde: Ard Mòr (OS/1/2/34/84/39); Ard Beag (OS/1/2/34/84/45); An t-Ard (OS/1/2/34/84/96); Cist an Àird Mhòir (OS/1/2/34/84/205). This may be because of the bias of the main informant, Rev John Gregorson Campbell. This was also common in Argyll generally - e.g. Rudh' an Aird Fhada on Mull (OS/1/2/21/13) - although feminine forms are also common - Rudha na h-Airde Moire on Islay (OS/1/2/34/84). Names collected more recently on Tiree do sometimes have a feminine form. See Markús 2012, 519 and 522

Other Forms: An Àrd a Tuath - DK

Lower Caolas - HMcP

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Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Donald Kennedy, Port Ban, 11/1996

Informant 2: Hector MacPhail, Ruaig, 4/1994