Talk:Tarbolton

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 well thats four more than — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.194.11 (talk) 01:54, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) burnwiel wherr william burned the english garrison
 * 2) robert burns born in lochlea farm tarbolton
 * 3) old king cole fought an important battle not just a childrens ryhme
 * 4) kris boyd the rangers and scotland striker

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" *. Glan-adair2015 (talk) 02:46, 12 December 2017 (UTC)