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.