English / Map Form: Beinn a' Chreachain
Gaelic Form: Beinn a' Chreachainn
Location: Bridge of Orchy
Post Town: BRIDGE OF ORCHY
Postcode area: PA36
County: Perthshire
Local Authority: Perth and Kinross
English / Map Form: Beinn a' Chreachain
Gaelic Form: Beinn a' Chreachainn
Genitive Form: Beinn a' Chreachainn
Language Notes
G nom. sg. beinn fem. ‘mountain’ + G gen. sg. masc. def. art. a’ (leniting) + lenited gen. sg. masc. of creachann ‘steep, bare rock = ‘the mountain of the bare rock’Sources
Beinn a’ Chreachainn: Robertson
Beinn a’ Creachainn is supposed to be the same word as Creach = cattle or spoil: Robert Burns diary
Beinn a’ Chreachann (chreach rhymes with hair – hair drawled, in fact): Robert Burns diary
Additional Information
Munro M061 1081m
