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The Highland monthly - National Library of Scotland

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no <strong>The</strong> Hi<strong>of</strong>iland Monikly.<br />

Paisley is probably derived from Gaelic baisleac, a<br />

•church, by provection <strong>of</strong> the b and modification <strong>of</strong> the last<br />

syllable. Lat. Basilica. " It is the name <strong>of</strong> a parish<br />

church in the county <strong>of</strong> Roscommon." " Baislec, a basilica,<br />

Greece; ecclesia, Latine i. Tech righ nime"— H. 2 15, p.<br />

180, col. a, line 3 (Dr O'Dononan's Supplement to<br />

O'Reilly's Irish Dictionary). Paisley is generally con-<br />

sidered to be the Vanduara <strong>of</strong> Ptolemy, a notion supported<br />

by the etymology <strong>of</strong> the name Vanduara, which seems to<br />

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