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Gall-Ghàidhealaibh
English name: Galloway · Dumfries and Galloway
Place-name meaning, origin and pronunciation
Meaning
“(among the) foreign Gaels”, a term for Gaelic-speaking Norse settlers
Nearby & related:
Dùn Phris · DumfriesAn t-Sròn Reamhar · StranraerAn Ruadh-Ghleann · RutherglenNa Pùballan · PeeblesGlaschu · GlasgowRinn Friù · Renfrew
Sources
Meaning, etymology and pronunciation text is adapted from Wiktionary. The adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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