English / Map Form: Avoch
Gaelic Form: Abhach
Location: Easter Ross, Highland
Post Town: AVOCH
County: Ross and Cromarty
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Avoch
Gaelic Form: Abhach
Genitive Form: Abhaich
Language Notes
Obscure, probably EG ab(h) (now abhainn), `river’ + locative suffix -ach, `place of’ = `place of rivers’Element Meaning
G abhach ~ place of rivers
Sources
| Alvach | 1493 Acta. Dom. Conc., 302 |
| Mill of Awache | 1567 RSS vi no. 47 |
| Aach | c. 1620 Pont text 126v |
| terris de Avach, Alvach | 1669 Retours (Ross) no. 124 |
| Avoch | 1820 Thomson |
| Obh’ch (for Abhach which change of a to o) | Watson 1904, 132 |
| Obhach (for Abhach)* | Dwelly 1912 |