English / Map Form: Alder Burn
Gaelic Form: Uisge Eallair
Location: Corrour
Post Town: Corrour
County: Perthshire
Local Authority: Perth and Kinross
English / Map Form: Alder Burn
Gaelic Form: Uisge Eallair
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Auld Auler 1783 Stobie
Uisge Aulder 1867 OS six inch
Uisge Aulder 1912 Bartholomew: Survey Atlas of Scotland
The Alder Burn, which falls down the precipitous south side of Ben Alder, is for alldhobhar, ‘rock water,’ ‘precipice water,’ from all, a steep or precipitous rock.: Watson 1926, 455
Additional Information
See Ben Alder for discussion of the form Eallair.
