English / Map Form: Ard Skinid
Gaelic Form: Àird Sgianaid
Post Town: LAIRG
Postcode area: IV27
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Ard Skinid
Gaelic Form: Àird Sgianaid
Language Notes
Sources
| Ardskianett | 1747-55 Roy | |
| Ard-skinned | 1832 Burnett |
Forms for Skinnet:
ecclesiam de Scynend 1275 Caithness and Sutherland Records no. 17
Skianet 1820 Forbes
Sgianaid: Dwelly 1912
Skianaid: Gunn, Sutherland and Reay Country, 154
“N., Skinni, bleached, withered, in reference to the grass grown on it.
This place is sometimes spelled ‘Sgianaid’ in charters.” MacKay 1891, 124.
Skinnet = Sgianaid: Seumas Grannd 2007
G. Sgianaid: Robertson, Highland News April 24 1897
Compare Skinidin ~ Sgianaidean.
