Cas Chaolas. Queensferry

It doesn't seem often acknowledged but one of our most famous old ferry-ports originally had a Gaelic name that desribes the place as the 'steep-sided straits'. Since being renamed in honour of an Anglo queen who used the port with her Gaelic-speaking husband, King Alexander, Cas Chaolas has become world famous for a number of bridges. 

Cas Chaolas was used for both sides of the Forth and indeed, a house in North Queensferry still bears the name 'Caschillis Cottage'. Today, North Queensferry is known as Port na Banrighinn. There are still many placenames of Gaelic origin on both sides of the Forth here that may be more obviously Gaelic - Echline, Duntarvie, Craigie, Inverkeithing, Dalgety Bay and possibly Dalmeny.

This was the first design for a t-shirt by Brochan no Bàs and why not blend an image of our present world-famous engineering with the area's original Gaelic name?

Cas Chaolas. Queensferry Gaelic T-Shirt