English / Map Form: Ardross
Gaelic Form: Àird Rois
Location: Easter Ross, Highland
Post Town: ALNESS
County: Ross and Cromarty
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Ardross
Gaelic Form: Àird Rois
Language Notes
G nom sg àird, fem. 'height' + gen. sg. of en RosElement Meaning
àird ~ height’; Ros ~ Ross
Sources
| Ardrosser | 1227 Moray Reg. 75 |
| Godefrey de Ardrossan | 1296 Ragman Rolls, 126 |
| Ardroshe | 1649 Tain and Balnagown Docs no. 566 |
| barony of Ardros | 1652 RMS x no. 9 |
| Ardross | 1747-55 Roy |
| Ardross | 1820 Thomson |
| ‘Ard-rois’ height of Ross | Watson 1904, 71 and Watson 1926, 496 |