English / Map Form: Blacklunans
Gaelic Form: Bealach Ghlùnaig
Post Town: BLAIRGOWRIE
Postcode area: PH10
County: Perthshire
Local Authority: Perth and Kinross
English / Map Form: Blacklunans
Gaelic Form: Bealach Ghlùnaig
Sources
Bawclownane 1460 C.A. Rental i, 131
Balclunas 1506 Dunkeld Rent. 76 [
Byallach nan goin (dogs) / Byalloch glunak, glunyak / Byalloch Lūnaik (2) Byallochglūnaik (Mrs M) Cf. Nathlan and Nathlak, Crolaig and Crolainn (Ross & Cromarty 216) Cf. Lunaig, a burn in Rothiemurchus: Diack MS2276
Additional Information
This is a complicated name of obscure origin, and has been reinterpreted a number of times. The offered form is certainly not the original, but appears to be the most common, most recently understood form.