The Place Name Caerlaverock
Overview
This paper explores the origins of the place name Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire, proposing a Brittonic origin. *Lavarōg, ‘loud one’, may have been the name that Brittonic speakers gave to the loud tidal bore that sweeps up the Nith estuary, and the original *Cair-lavarðg was on Wardlaw, a fort within earshot of that striking phenomenon.
Author
Dr Alan James
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The Place Name Caerlaverock