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  • South Ayrshire to promote Gaelic in schools

    South Ayrshire to promote Gaelic in schools

    A five year plan to increase the use of Gaelic in South Ayrshire has been approved by Councillors.

    Once the plan has been approved by Bòrd na Gàidhlig, parents children and staff will be encouraged to learn and use Gaelic.

    The plan replaces the previous plan, which ran until 2025.

    While recognising that there is limited demand at present for Gaelic in South Ayrshire, the plan recognises that it’s important there is support for those who want to learn and use the language.

    You can see from the paper that there are many opportunities for people to indicate an interest in learning Gaelic, and when that interest is sufficient then we are clearly able to provide that for them.

    Councillor Hugh Hunter

    Councillor Alec Clark commented “Sacred Heart School in Girvan ran a
    very successful season of Gaelic which went down really well.”

    You can download a copy of the draft plan here from the South Ayrshire website.

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  • A Gaelic-named garden plot in Ayr?

    A Gaelic-named garden plot in Ayr?

    One of the Ayr Burgh Records for 1536-7

    records* that one Thome Dalrimple had the few of Garotrodding in Ayr. Could this be for Gàradh Trodain ‘disputed garden’?

    Or are we looking at a Scots formation incorporating rodding ‘track’?

    There are plenty of Gaelic place-names within the old Ayr burgh boundaries (many more interesting Scots ones of course) and Gaelic was still spoken in most of the rest of Carrick at that date.

    I imagine the linguistic situation in Ayr then was probably similar to Inverness in the 19th Century with a substantial proportion of the population being Gaelic speakers but rendered almost invisible by all business being conducted exclusively in Scots and Latin.

    *Ayr Burgh Accounts, Scottish History Society p.10

    Thanks to Michael Ansell on Facebook

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  • Gaelic in Dunure

    Gaelic in Dunure

    Dunure and Ayrshire have a long heritage of Gaelic

    The names of our hills and villages reflect that – as to the songs of Robert Burns.

    Find out more here.

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