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.