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Badachro

Bad a' Chrò

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Meaning

the copse of the pen


Location

Ross and Cromarty

Highland

NG778735


English / Map Form: Badachro

Gaelic Form: Bad a' Chrò


Location: Wester Ross, Highland

Post Town: GAIRLOCH

County: Ross and Cromarty

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Badachro

Gaelic Form: Bad a' Chrò


Language Notes

G nom. sg. bad, masc. ‘copse’ + gen. sg. masc. def. art. a’ (leniting) + lenited gen. sg. of crò, ‘pen’

Element Meaning

G bad ~ copse; crò ~ pen

Sources

Baddichro 1566 Retours (Ross) no. 3
Baddachiro 1569 Retours (Ross) no. 4
Badethro 1638 Retours (Ross) no. 87
Baddechro 1673 Retours (Ross) no. 130
Badchroe 1697 Retours (Ross) no. 162
Badachrow Harbour 1747-55 Roy
Baddachro 1820 Thomson (Har)

Badacro [harbour] 1857 Admiralty Chart 2509
Bad a Chrotha Dixon 1866, xxviii
Bad a’ Chrò Wentworth
Bad a’ Chròtha Watson 1904, 223
Bad a’ Chròtha Hulme 2007
Bad a’ Chrò – last vowel a monopthong Fraser (2009)

Additional Information

This is by Loch Bad a’ Chròtha.

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