English / Map Form: Auchterhouse
Gaelic Form: Uachdaras
Location: Blairgowrie
Post Town: Blairgowrie
County: Angus
Local Authority: Angus
English / Map Form: Auchterhouse
Gaelic Form: Uachdaras
Language Notes
G uachdar +Element Meaning
Sources
Vtherhouse 1236 x 1517 Dunk. Rent. 335 [16th c.; from Myln, Vitae]
vicarius de Huterus 1274 Bag.
Hugterhus 1275 Bag. p. 72
Additional Information
‘Upland place’? The ending us is probably a locational suffix meaning ‘place of’, which has later been assimilated to Scots or SSE ‘house’.
Many thanks to Simon Taylor for these early forms and analysis.
