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Achabeg

An t-Achadh Beag

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Meaning

the small field


Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NG309559


English / Map Form: Achabeg

Gaelic Form: An t-Achadh Beag


Location: Skye, Hebrides

Post Town: ISLE OF SKYE

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Achabeg

Gaelic Form: An t-Achadh Beag


Genitive Form: an Achaidh Bhig

Language Notes

G nom. sg. masc. def. art. an (with t- before vowels) + nom. sg. achadh, masc. ‘field’ + nom. sg. masc. adj. beag, ‘small’ = ‘the small field’

Element Meaning

G achadh ~ field; beag ~ small

Sources

Achenbeg 1493 RMS ii no. 2200
Achenbeg 1537 RMS ii no. 1745
Achbeg 1747-55 Roy
Auchabeg 1802 Valuation Roll for the County of Argyll
Achabeg 1820 Thomson
Achnabeg 1851 Admiralty Chart 2155 (influenced by Achnaha House?)
Achadhbeag 1912 Bartholomew
Atlas

Achabeg, Achadh beag. Duirinish. Little field. With Allt Acha’bhig’.: Forbes 1927, 25

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