English / Map Form: Am Faochagach
Gaelic Form: Am Faochagach
Post Town: GARVE
Postcode area: IV23
County: Ross and Cromarty
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Am Faochagach
Gaelic Form: Am Faochagach
Sources
The place of the shells
∂ faochakoch: Nevis Hulme
‘føχak, from Faochag…whelk, perhaps referring to shape.Watson Place-name Discoveries, 131 [discusses and dismissed the idea of the meaning being ‘abounding in whelks’
Additional Information
Munro M210, 953m