Place-names

Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history 
and origins of place names in and around our area In Inveran, An Sìthean or ‘place of the fairies’, was recorded as being a small enclosure of pasture situated over a mile north of Inveran farm. Nearby we find Sìthean Mòr, ‘the

Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history 
and origins of place names in and around our area Often Scottish Gaelic place names incorporate human body parts to describe landforms. Tòrr na Teangaidh situated a short distance east from Easter Achnachanat means ‘knoll of the tongue’. In the 1848-1852 OS

Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history 
and origins of place names in and around our area Croick in Strathcarron is widely accepted as deriving from the Gaelic phrase A' Chròic, which translates to 'a branching or side glen'. William Watson states that gillean na cròic

Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history 
and origins of place names in and around our area The Munros of Culrain renamed the estate of Carbisdale (from Balinoe to Ochtow) after the estate of Culrain in the parish of Rosskeen, which in turn had been given that name after

Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history 
and origins of place names in and around our area Poll Cròm is a fishing pool on the river Einig, close to its junction with the river Oykel. Its name means ‘crooked pool’. About 3/8 of a mile further up we

Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history 
and origins of place names in and around our area By Silvia Muras Baile in Scottish Gaelic means ‘settlement’, ‘farm’ or ‘town’. Baile- tends to be placed in good agricultural land while achadh- is a term applied to farms in less fertile,