English / Map Form: Allt Ruadh
Gaelic Form: Allt Ruaidh
Location: Badenoch & Strathspey, Highland
Post Town: KINGUSSIE
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Allt Ruadh
Gaelic Form: Allt Ruaidh
Language Notes
G masc. def. art. an + G nom. sg. allt, masc. 'burn' + adj G ruadh, 'red' = the red burnElement Meaning
G allt ~ burn; ruadh ~ red
Sources
Aldroy Roy 1747-55
Passing over Allt Ruaidh as being an oblique form of Allt Ruadh, “red burn,”: A. MacBain, Place-names of Badenoch ‘Place-names of the Highlands and Islands’, 244
Additional Information
There is another Allt Ruaidh near Carrbridge which does not appear to have the article.