Image: Bal element in Scottish placenames

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Description: This map shows place names in Scotland that contain the element BAL- from the Scottish Gaelic 'baile' meaning home, farmstead, town or city. This place name data gives some indication of the extent of Medieval Gaelic settlement in Scotland.
Title: Bal element in Scottish placenames
Credit: data from: Norman Dixon, 1947, The place names of Midlothian, PhD diss., University of Edinburgh. Peter McNeill and Hector L. MacQueen, 2000, An Atlas of Scottish History to 1707, 2000, Edinburgh: Scottish Medievalists.
Author: Lasairdhubh drawing on data from "An Atlas of Scottish History to 1707" and "The place names of Midlothian" and using the template by Nilfanion.
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