The book Arran; - Cook Clan

O.-N. Stem.
Gil= aravine,
gully.
Modern Name.
Catacol.
Corrygills or
Corriegilh.
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del.
Ancient Spellinga.
1433 Catagil.
1462 Cathuydill.
1600 Blaeu, Catti
1558 Gorriglis.
1561 Corregelleii:
1690 Corrigills.
1600 Blaeu, Cor;/-
gil and Corigil.
Derivation and Meaning.
white), often found in
composition of Iceland
place-names.
Kattu-gil = the wild
cats' gully {Kiittr, a cat,
gen. Kuttar, gen. pi.
Kutta). Cp. Kattardalr,
Kattamef, Kattarhi'ifUi
in Iceland. So Capt.
Thomas, ' Islay Place-
Names' in Proc. of Soc.
of Antiq., vol. iv. , New
Series, 1881-82, p. 260.
In favour of the Kati
( = small ship) theory,
there is a local legend
that Magnus Berfaettr
and his men came here
in their ships to avenge
an insult by Fionn.
According to Professor
Olsen this is quite clearly
korfa - gil = raven - gully
{korfr, gen. pi. korfa, a
raven) ; cp. Modern Norwegian,
korv ; Scottish,
' corbie,' a raven or crow
(Orkney, etc.).
So high an authority
as the late Dr. Macbain
regarded this as a hybrid,
viz. Corrie (Gaelic, cotVe),
a ravine, and git, a ravine,
i.e. two words of practically
identical meaning.
As we have seen,
such redundancy is common
enough where the
Norse meaning has been
lost, e.g. Glen Scorrodale,
Ben Roinebhal,
etc., etc. But this
almost always occurs in
compound woi-ds. Absolute
duplications like
Craignish ( = creag nes)
are extremely rare. I
venture to suggest, however,
as a possible
,