English / Map Form: Beinn na Lap
Gaelic Form: Beinn nan Lap
Post Town: CORROUR
Postcode area: PH30
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Beinn na Lap
Gaelic Form: Beinn nan Lap
Language Notes
G nom. sg. beinn fem. ‘mountain’ + gen. pl. masc. def. art. nan + gen. pl. of lap masc. ‘spot’ = ‘mountain of the spots’Sources
Binilip M. 1654 Blaeu
Ben Lap[..] 1747-55 Roy
Beinnan laup 1832 Thomson
Beinn nan lap: 1868 Sealgair ‘An Duanaire’ , 59
Lapbheinn: Oran na Comhachaig [Lap-bheinn in version Beannachd leis na Beanntan le Domhnall MacFionnlaidh from Highland News Aug 25, 1900 p. 11]
According to an old native of Lochaber it is the G. for ‘the leveret ben’ , but it may be an error for Beinn na laib, G. for ‘ben of the mire’.: MacMillan, 264
By Loch na Lap.
‘bina’ la:p… the a in bona is throaty, almost aspirated laxp’ : A. Watson 2015 152.
This is by Garbh-bheinn.
Additional Information
Munro M241, 935m
