English / Map Form: Beinn Bhreac
Gaelic Form: A’ Bheinn Bhreac
Post Town: BALLATER
Postcode area: AB35
County: Aberdeenshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Beinn Bhreac
Gaelic Form: A’ Bheinn Bhreac
Language Notes
G nom. sg. fem. def. art. a’ (leniting) + G nom. sg. beinn fem. ‘mountain’ + nom. sg. lenited adj. breac fem. ‘speckled’Sources
Ben vreck 1946 W. M. Alexander, ‘Some name pronounciations’
Pronounced Vrehk, tending towards Vrack.. A hill with speckled screes: A. Watson 1984, 21
Additional Information
Munro M249, 931m
