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’.