English / Map Form: Auchterless
Gaelic Form: Uachdar Leasa
County: Aberdeenshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Auchterless
Gaelic Form: Uachdar Leasa
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
ecclesiam de Ochtirles 1157 Abdn. Reg. i, 6
Malcolm[us] persona de Vchtirlys 1215×22 Arb. Lib. i no. 130
Uachdar-lios, upper enclosure: Alexander, 1952, 157
Additional Information
leasa is an alternative genitive form of lios which appears to be in use here, although in Aberdeenshire Gaelic the fnal -a would not have been pronounced.
