Context
The entry in the [simple_tooltip content='OS Name Books, Inverness-shire Ordnance Survey Name Books, 1876-1878. ScotlandsPlaces <https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/inverness-shire-os-name-books-1876-1878>.']OS Name Books (OS1/18/10/21)[/simple_tooltip] reads: ‘This name is applied to a large cultivated district, situated on the North West point of Benbecula. The houses are all one storey high, thatched and in ordinary repair. There is a school and sub Post Office in this district. Proprietor Capt [Captain] Gordon Cluny Castle’.
See Teampull Chaluim Chille for the full discussion of this name.
- Grid reference: NF773553
Meaning
[simple_tooltip content='Scottish Gaelic']G[/simple_tooltip] baile ‘a town, settlement’ + [simple_tooltip content='Scottish Gaelic']G[/simple_tooltip] manach ‘a monk’
(‘The Monks’ Settlement’)
Early forms
[simple_tooltip content='Cameron, A. (trans. & ed.), MacBain, A. & Kennedy, J. (eds.) 1892. The Book of Clanranald, in Reliquiae Celticae: texts, papers, and studies in Gaelic literature and philology left by the late Rev. Alexander Cameron, LL.D., vol. 2 (Inverness) <https://archive.org/details/reliquiaeceltica02came>, 211.']c1440[/simple_tooltip] Baile-an-Mhanuidh
[simple_tooltip content='Gregory, D. and Skene, W.F. (eds.) 1847. ‘Rentale of the Bishoprick of the Ilis and Abbacie of Ecolmkill’ (1561x1573), Collectanea de Rebus Albanicis: consisting of original papers and documents relating to the history of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Edinburgh), 2; also see MacDonald (2010, 4-5) for further discussion of the dating of this document.']1561x1573[/simple_tooltip] Ballenamanniche
[simple_tooltip content='Blaeu, J. 1654. ‘Atlas of Scotland’ (NLS National Library of Scotland) <https://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu/graphic_index_west.html>.']1654 Blaeu[/simple_tooltip] Baluannich
[simple_tooltip content='Arrowsmith, A. 1807. ‘Map of Scotland Constructed from Original Materials’ (NLS National Library of Scotland) <https://maps.nls.uk/joins/747.html>.']1807 Arrowsmith[/simple_tooltip] Balvanich
[simple_tooltip content='Thomson, J. 1832. ‘John Thomson’s Atlas of Scotland’ (NLS National Library of Scotland) <https://maps.nls.uk/atlas/thomson/494.html>.']1832 Thomson[/simple_tooltip] Balivanich
[simple_tooltip content='Six-inch 1st edition Ordnance Survey Maps of Scotland, 1843-1882 <https://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch/index.html>.']OS 6-inch[/simple_tooltip] Balivanich
