... the Gaelic and Pictish and Brittonic speakers is not the Irish Sea, as it would be by today's societies, but the mountains of the Grampian Highlands. This shows that the Gaelic speaking area of Scotland could originally have been part of an Irish dynasty encompassing both Antrim and Argyll (Campbell 2001). This paper intends to examine the evidence within Campbell's article and analyse it in relation to the hill and river names of County Antrim and Argyll. There will be an examination of individual elements found within the names, which are common to both areas. The results of this study will then be used to either support or contradict Campbell's study. It has been shown that there is very little archaeological evidence to support the view that Irish settlers came across to Argyll in vast numbers in the early 6th Century. This has lead to a more cautionary approach ...

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