English / Map Form: Beinn nan Aighenan
Gaelic Form: Beinn nan Aighean
Post Town: TAYNUILT
Postcode area: PA35
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Beinn nan Aighenan
Gaelic Form: Beinn nan Aighean
Sources
Beinn nan Aighean 1875 OS 6”
Beinn nan Aighenan 1897 OS 6”
“The form Beinn nan Aighean (explained sometimes as heifer, sometimes as hind) seems to point to a noun.”: Ronald Burn, Gaelic Glossary, An Gàidheal 1924 [in discussion of a word aogh ‘kind’ sic ‘hind’. He cites this is from local information]
Ben-nan-aighean or “the mountain of the heifers” Ardchattan, County of Argyle, NSA, Vol. VII, 1845 471
Additional Information
Munro M196, 960m
