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Ben Lawers

Beinn Labhair

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Upland

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Perthshire

Perth and Kinross

NN635413


English / Map Form: Ben Lawers

Gaelic Form: Beinn Labhair


Location: Perthshire

Post Town: KILLIN

County: Perthshire

Local Authority: Perth and Kinross

English / Map Form: Ben Lawers

Gaelic Form: Beinn Labhair


Sources

Bēinn-lābhar no Bēinn-labhair 1835 MacIntyre’ s Etymological Dictionary 23r

Labhar, Lawers, is the name primarily of a stream, then of a district, on the north side of Loch Tay. The English plural is due to the three divisions,…: Watson 1926, 432

Beinn Làbhair: An t-Òranaiche 1879 228

Beinn Labhair: Robertson MS372, 134

“Ben Lawers is named from Lawers Burn; the Gaelic is Labhar, a noun corresponding to the adjective labhar, loud and sounding” Robertson Oban Times February 28, 1903

Additional Information

Munro M010, 1214m

This name is primarily the burn (Uisge Labhair), but has extended to the hill and a number of other settlements.

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