Crinan is a name of
Gaelic
Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Ca ...
origin and it has a number of contexts:
*
Crinan, Argyll, a village in Scotland
* The
Crinan Canal, a waterway in Scotland with one of its outlets at Crinan, linking Loch Fyne with Loch Crinan
*
Crínán of Dunkeld
Crínán of Dunkeld (died 1045) was the hereditary abbot of the monastery of Dunkeld, and perhaps the Mormaer of Atholl. Crínán was progenitor of the House of Dunkeld, the dynasty which would rule Scotland until the later 13th century. He was t ...
, a powerful Scottish lord around the beginning of the 11th Century and the father of Duncan I of Scotland
* Crinan is a statistical area in
Appleby, a suburb of Invercargill, New Zealand
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