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