Glen Vale
Glen Vale ~ PTM/SLO R NO1806 1 372
Glen-vealle 1654 Blaeu (Gordon) Fife
Glenvale 1840 Leighton 1840 ii, 193 [see John Knox’s Pulpit SLO]
Glen Vale 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn
G gleann + G bealach
Although now a strange combination of Sc glen and SSE vale, it is in fact a reinterpretation of a name containing G gleann (a’) bhealaich ‘glen of (the) pass’ or ‘glen of Ballo’, Ballo itself (FAL) representing G bealach ‘pass’. Glenvale is the narrow entrance to the pass between West Lomond and the Bishop Hill.
This place-name appeared in printed volume 4