English / Map Form: Big Burn
Gaelic Form: An t-Allt Mòr
Location: Golspie
Post Town: Golspie
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Big Burn
Gaelic Form: An t-Allt Mòr
Language Notes
Element Meaning
“The Big Burn. I have found no other name for the stream which flows through Dunrobin Glen and enters the sea just by the east end of Golspie. Proximity to Dunrobin probably accounts for no ancent Gaelic name surviving.” A.F.M. MacLennan notes.
Sources
This is a local variant of the name Golspie Burn. The name was translated as part of the Core Paths scheme.
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