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Achintore

Achadh an Todhair


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Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NN092725


English / Map Form: Achintore

Gaelic Form: Achadh an Todhair


Location: Fort William

Post Town: Fort William

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Achintore

Gaelic Form: Achadh an Todhair


Language Notes

achadh, `field' + an, `of the' + todhar, `manure' = `the field of the manure'.

Sources

Achaintour: c.1590 Pont map 13

Achintoremor: 1685 Ratification in favours of the duke of Gordon [and protest]

Auchentore: 1832 John Thomson’s Atlas of Scotland

Ach’ an Todhair: 1876 Ordnance Survey 6 inch 1st edn.

Achadh an todhair: 1912 Dwelly

Ach’ an Todhair: OS current name

Achadh an Todhair: MacKinnon

Achadh an Todhair: SMO

Achadh an todhair: MacMillan

Many places in the Highlands owe their names to this old habit of sending the cows to the sheiling. Achintore, near Fort-William, now studded with so many lovely villas, is nothing else, interpreted, but the field of the manure. The ancient family of the Macgillonies of Strone had Achintore as a summer grazing. They gathered heaps of manure there in the season twice a day. “Achadh-an-todhaire far an deanar da thodhar ‘s an latha” was the old proverb about it.: Mary MacKellar Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness xv, 165

Additional Information

In Thomson’s map, the current site of Achintore is referred to as Auchentore more, whilst
another now unnamed site to the south-west was called Auchentore. Ach’ in Todhair is the current form on OS maps.

Achintore Gardens ~ Gàrradh Achadh an Todhair

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