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Beinn a' Chlachair

Beinn a' Chlachair


Upland

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Inverness-shire

Highland

PH19

NN471781


English / Map Form: Beinn a' Chlachair

Gaelic Form: Beinn a' Chlachair


Location: Corrour

Post Town: DALWHINNIE

Postcode area: PH19

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Beinn a' Chlachair

Gaelic Form: Beinn a' Chlachair


Language Notes

 G nom. sg. beinn fem. ‘mountain’ G gen. sg. masc. def. art. a’ (leniting) + lenited gen. sg. masc. of clachair ‘stonemason’ = ‘the mountain of the stonemason’

Sources

‘hill of the stonemason’: A. Watson ‘Place-name Discoveries’, 151
G. for ‘the mason’s ben’. MacMillan, Bygone Lochaber, 264

Additional Information

Munro M056 1087m

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