Gobagrennan.
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:03 pmWhenever I have been past the signs for this place I have wondered where the name originated.Anyone know?
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Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:03 pmRe: Gobagrennan.
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 11:23 pmGobagrennan (Argyll), Gob a' Ghrianain. "The promontory at the sunny spot"
Re: Gobagrennan.
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 12:52 pmGreen place of the branching rivers
Re: Gobagrennan.
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 7:34 pmAccording to Angus Martin in his book 'Kintyre Places and Place-Names', Gobagrennan - in 1736 'Goubugrennan' - is now a house south-west of Lussa Reservoir, but was originally a shepherd's house until the steading was inundated when Lussa Reservoir was created in the 1940s and early 1950s. The name suggests Gob a' ghrianain - The Sunny Point.