English / Map Form: Beinn Dearg
Gaelic Form: Beinn Dearg
Location: Ullapool
Post Town: Garve
County: Ross and Cromarty
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Beinn Dearg
Gaelic Form: Beinn Dearg
Language Notes
G nom. sg. beinn fem. ‘mountain’ + nom. sg. adj dearg ‘red’ (lenition suppressed du to homeorganic consontants)Sources
Beinn Dearg (bin jarrak), Red mountain. Beinn ; and Dearg, red.: Dixon Gairloch in North-west Ross-shire 1886, xxix
Coire Beinn Dearg: Ronald Burn, Diary
It seems, like some other beinn names which are qualified by an adjective, that this name does not have an article. Although OS does not generally record the article in the nominative form for such names, it would have done so in the names of Allt Beinn Dearg and Coire Beinn Dearg, which are not *Allt na Beinne Deirge or *Coire na Beinne Deirge.
Additional Information
It seems, like some other beinn names which are qualified by an adjective, that this name does not have an article. Although OS does not generally record the article in the nominative form for such names, it would have done so in the names of Allt Beinn Dearg and Coire Beinn Dearg, which are not *Allt na Beinne Deirge or *Coire na Beinne Deirge.
Munro M057 1084m
