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    Place-Names of Inverness of Inverness and Surrounding Area

    £0.00

    This guide to the place-names of Inverness and the surrounding area celebrates the cultural and natural heritage of the Highland capital by identifying and explaing the meaning behind many of the area’s place-names. It was researched and written by the award-winning local broadcaster and storyteller Roddy (Ruairidh) Maclean, whose work centres on the connections between the Gaelic language and Scotland’s environment. The booklet is free and available as a PDF download: Place-Names of Inverness of Inverness and Surrounding Area. There are also a limited number of hard copies available free of charge, which we can post out to you for the appropriate postage fee.

  • Scottish Gaelic Place-Names: The Collected Works of Charles M. Robertson

    £20.00

    This book brings together for the first time Robertson’s published and unpublished material on place-names. The main portion of the book has two parts. The first comprises both his published and previously unpublished articles about place-names. The second part comprises transcriptions of his unpublished place-name notebooks. These contain over eight thousand Gaelic name forms, with associated folklore and linguistic notes made by him. The book also has a full introduction which puts his work into context, as well as an exhaustive index.