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An Sgarsoch

An Sgarsach


Upland

Location

Perthshire

Perth and Kinross

PH10

NN933836


English / Map Form: An Sgarsoch

Gaelic Form: An Sgarsach


Post Town: BLAIRGOWRIE

Postcode area: PH10

County: Perthshire

Local Authority: Perth and Kinross

English / Map Form: An Sgarsoch

Gaelic Form: An Sgarsach


Sources

Scairsoch 1651 Gordon Aberdeen

an Sgarsaich: Robertson

the skarsoch; it had the def. article also in Gaelic.: Alexander, Some Name Pronunciations, 267

There is a tradition, known in both Braemar and Badenoch, that a cattle market used to be held there; it was called Féille Sgarsaich: 1954 Alexander 369

from An Sgarsach… possibly from Sgar = a knot or fissure… These notes show that it had been An Sgarsach Mhór, the big sgarsach, pairing with Scarsoch Bheag to the north. A hill in Glen Geldie.: A. Watson 1984, 136

For Sgarsaich Bheag Diack writes: skarsich, n sgarsoch, an sgarsaich bheag, the word is feminine: Diack MS2276

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Munro M126, 1006m

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