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Bangor, Carnarvonshire (634 _Benchoer_).
This reference is to The Annals of Ulster:
sub anno 632(2) _Combustio Bennchoir Moer in Britannia_
I shouldn't try to do these things from memory!
It could be argued that this is a Gaelic rendering of a British name (the AU for this period were probably from a set compiled at Iona); however, put together with the unconvincing etymology for W._bangor_, and the place-name distributions and associations, I think the case for an import or loan is still viable.
Henry G-C
visit the Scottish Place-Name Society website at
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/index.htm
and the Scottish place-name newsgroup at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scotplace
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