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Auchteraw

Uachdarath


Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NH354082


English / Map Form: Auchteraw

Gaelic Form: Uachdarath


Location: Inverness area, Highland

Post Town: FORT AUGUSTUS

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Auchteraw

Gaelic Form: Uachdarath


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 

Sources

?Wchtirach, Uchtirach 1416 RMS ii, no. 178
ouacruch c. 1591 Pont map 5
Uachdarath Dieckhoff Dictionary
Uachdar Abha Watson 1926, 477
Uachdar Abha Mac an Tàilleir

Additional Information

“Uachdarath (pronounced by some people during the last century uòKgәr әn drah, i.e. Uachdar an t-Srath, “the upper part of the Strath”), uKgәra. This latter form may possibly refer to the vitrified fort on the hill at the end of the Strath; although “rath” meaning a circular fort, seems to be unknown now.: Dieckhoff Dictionary [under Auchteraa]

Dieckhoff’s notes show this older form representing “Uachdar an Rath” with the article.

..”above it [River Oich] is Uachdar Abha, Auchterawe, i.e. the ground above the Awe: Watson 1926, 477 [similar quote in Watson’s intro to MacBain]

Of the two interpretations, Dieckhoff’s is preferable here, since he studied this area in greater detail than Watson. His interpretation is also supported by Pont’s form.

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