Talk:Tarbolton

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Tarbolton article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

UK geography

	United Kingdom portal This article falls within the scope of WikiProject UK geography, a user-group dedicated to building a comprehensive and quality guide to places in the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you wish to participate, share ideas or merely get tips you can join us at the project page where there are resources, to do lists and guidelines on how to write about settlements.UK geographyWikipedia:WikiProject UK geographyTemplate:WikiProject UK geographyUK geography articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Scotland

	Scotland portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Scotland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Scotland and Scotland-related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ScotlandWikipedia:WikiProject ScotlandTemplate:WikiProject ScotlandScotland articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

History

why no history of tarbolton .theres is plenty from old king cole to kris boyd . so wilkipedia needs to get its finger out and look ill list 5 for starters

burnwiel wherr william burned the english garrison
robert burns born in lochlea farm tarbolton
old king cole fought an important battle not just a childrens ryhme
kris boyd the rangers and scotland striker

well thats four more than — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.194.11 (talk) 01:54, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of the placename

The entries regarding the origin of the placename perhaps need to be updated, because the entry has the order of how the place was named wrong. The settlement was part of the kingdom of Northumbria and was named Bolton. Gaelic-speaking settlers added the tor (tòrr) when the area became part of the kingdom of Alba/Scotland.

The "tor" (modern Gaelic, tòrr) is "a hill of conic form, heap, castle, Irish tor, tower, castle, crest, Early Irish tor, tuir, d. turid, a tower, Welsh twr, Cornish tur, Breton tour: *turi-, *turet-, Indo-European root tver, hold, enclose, Latin turris, Greek @Gtúrsis, tower. Some hold that the Celtic is borrowed from Latin Gaelic tòrr, with rr, is possibly for torth (cf. *turet-). It also means "crowd" in Gaelic and Early Irish, and "heap" also in Welsh" *^[1]. Glan-adair2015 (talk) 02:46, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ MacBain's Gaelic etymological dictionary

[1] MacBain's Gaelic etymological dictionary

[1]