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Alturlie

Allt Rolaidh


Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NH714495


English / Map Form: Alturlie

Gaelic Form: Allt Rolaidh


Location: Inverness area, Highland

Post Town: INVERNESS

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Alturlie

Gaelic Form: Allt Rolaidh


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 

Sources

Artrelly 1351 Moray Reg. 230
?Artralze 1451 Moray Reg. 193
Artirlie 1565 Moray Reg. Rentales
le Ness de Artillie c. 1570? Moray Reg. 317
de Alternie terras de Artirlie 1586 RMS, v no. 1001
?Ardra..y c. 1591 Pont map 8
?Alteroy 1640 Gordon map Inverness
Alterly 1654 Blaeu map Moray
Altirly 1671 Wardlaw MS, 494
Ardturlies, Arturlies Head 1747-55 Roy
Alterly 1748 Plan of the Battle of Culloden
Allt Rolaidh MacLean, 57. See discussion
Ardturlie – Ard-rolaidh Watson 2002 (1909), 156
Allt Rollaidh Watson in Dwelly
aLt-roLi Diack MS2276

Additional Information

See Watson for discussion. The generic element seems to have changed from àird ‘height’ to allt ‘burn’ or even alt ‘cliff’.

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