English / Map Form: Allt Fearna
Gaelic Form: An t-Allt Feàrna
Location: Lochailort
Post Town: Glenfinnan
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Allt Fearna
Gaelic Form: An t-Allt Feàrna
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This name was gathered as part of a local research project on the place-names of the Rough Bounds of Lochaber and was published in a booklet by SNH and AÀA. The Following quote appears in that booklet:
“Then there is A’ Chlais Fheàrna, ‘ the alder grove’, through which flws An t-Allt Feàrna, ‘the alder burn’.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: The Rough Bounds of Lochaber (Scottish Natural Heritage 2013): 22
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