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Beinn Sgritheall

Beinn an Sgrithill


Upland

Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

IV40

NG835126


English / Map Form: Beinn Sgritheall

Gaelic Form: Beinn an Sgrithill


Post Town: KYLE

Postcode area: IV40

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Beinn Sgritheall

Gaelic Form: Beinn an Sgrithill


Language Notes

G nom. sg. beinn fem. ‘mountain’ + gen. sg. of place-name (art. an masc. + gen. sg. of sgritheall masc ‘loose stones’)

Sources

Ben Skree 177-55 Roy

Ben Scrian 1807 Arrowsmith

Ben Scrian 1832 Thomson

Ben Sgrial: scree hill. Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Islands,

Sig.- [Signification] “Mountain of Loose Stones.” OS1/17/27/97 [Beinn Sqriodhail given as alternative]

Ben Sgriol OS 1st edn.

This is by An Sgriodhal NG825123 [Signification] “The Stony Place.”

Additional Information

Munro M184, 974m

This looks to relate to a place An Sgritheall.

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