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.