Caerlaverock Church of Scotland - geograph

Caerlaverock (; gd, Cille Bhlàthain) is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The parish was historically in

Dumfriesshire Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries (''Siorrachd Dhùn Phris'' in Gaelic) is a historic county and registration county in southern Scotland. The Dumfries lieutenancy area covers a similar area to the historic county. I ...

. The area includes: *

Caerlaverock Castle Caerlaverock Castle is a moated triangular castle first built in the 13th century. It is located on the southern coast of Scotland, south of Dumfries, on the edge of the Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve. Caerlaverock was a stronghold o ...

, a 13th-century castle, located south of Dumfries, Scotland * Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve, a National Nature Reserve in the Solway Firth, south-west Scotland *

WWT Caerlaverock WWT Caerlaverock is wetland nature reserve in southwest Scotland, one of nine reserves in Britain operated by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust founded by Sir Peter Scott. It covers a site at Eastpark Farm, on the north shore of the Solway Firth ...

, a

Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is an international wildfowl and wetland conservation charity in the United Kingdom. Its patron is Charles III, and its president is Kate Humble. History The WWT was founded in 1946 by the ornithologist a ...

nature reserve, located south of Dumfries, Scotland

Etymology

The name ''Caerlaverock'' is of

Brittonic Brittonic or Brythonic may refer to: *Common Brittonic, or Brythonic, the Celtic language anciently spoken in Great Britain *Brittonic languages, a branch of the Celtic languages descended from Common Brittonic *Britons (Celtic people) The Br ...

origin. The first part of the name is the element ''cajr'' meaning "an enclosed, defensible site", (

Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...

''caer'', "fort, city"). The second part of the name may be the personal name ''Lïμarch'' (Welsh ''Llywarch''), or a lost stream-name formed from the adjective ''laβar'', "talkative" (Welsh ''llafar'', see

Afon Llafar : ''For the river which flows into Bala Lake see Afon Llafar (Dee)'' Afon Llafar is a river in the Carneddau, Snowdonia. It rises where many streams flow down the slopes of Yr Elen, Carnedd Llewelyn and Carnedd Dafydd to join together in the ...

), suffixed with ''–ǭg'', "having the quality of", or the adjectival suffix ''-īg''. The present form has been influenced by the Scots word ''laverock'', "skylark".

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References

Geography of Dumfries and Galloway Dumfriesshire Civil parishes of Scotland Parishes in Dumfries and Galloway {{DumfriesGalloway-geo-stub