English / Map Form: Beinn a’ Chochuill
Gaelic Form: Beinn a’ Chochaill
Post Town: DALMALLY
Postcode area: PA33
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Beinn a’ Chochuill
Gaelic Form: Beinn a’ Chochaill
Language Notes
G nom. sg. beinn fem. ‘mountain’ + G gen. sg. masc. def. art. a’ (leniting) + lenited gen. sg. masc. of cochall ‘husk’ = ‘the mountain of the husk’Sources
Ben cochail: Ardchattan, County of Argyle, NSA, Vol. VII, 1845, 470
‘Sig [Signification] The Husk Mountain’ OS Namebooks OS1/2/49/134
Cf. Invercochil and Glen Cochil: Inbhir a’ Chochail and Gleann a’ Chochail
Additional Information
Munro M172, 980m
