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Blarmachfoldach

Blàr Magh Faoilteach

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Meaning

obscure


Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NN096692


English / Map Form: Blarmachfoldach

Gaelic Form: Blàr Magh Faoilteach


Location: Lochaber, Highland

Post Town: FORT WILLIAM

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

Nearest Main Roads: A82

English / Map Form: Blarmachfoldach

Gaelic Form: Blàr Magh Faoilteach


Language Notes

G nom. sg. blàr masc. ‘plain’ + magh masc., ‘plain’ + faoilteach, an obscure element.

Element Meaning

Possibly G blàr ~ plain; magh ~ plain; faoilteach, an obscure element

Sources

Blairmackfoylach c. 1590 Pont map 13
Blarmakveltrich 1642 RMS ix no. 1254
Blairmackfueillach 1654 Blaeu Map (Breadalbane)
Blarmacfhuildaich 1791-1799 OSA (Kilmallie), 123
Blairmachyldach 1810 Williams’ Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom, 407
Blairmacphaoildeachd 1820 Thomson
Blarmacfoldich 1841 Census SCT1841/179 ED 5, Kilmallie et al

Blarmachfoldach 1873 OS 6 inch 1st edn.
Blar mach-foilteach (elsewhere faoilteach) Livingstone, 265
Blarmach-fhuildaich 1912 Bartholomew Atlas
Blàr mac faoil-teach MacMillan, 254
Blàr Mac Faoilteach MacKinnon, 13
Blar mac(he)faoilteach; Braigh mac Fhaoilleach ao half long, Blàr mac Fhaoilleach; Blàr-mac-fadhailteach Robertson
Blàr Magh Faoilteach informant TM

Blàr Magh Faoilteach informant AK

Additional Information

MacKinnon states that the name has not been explained satisfactorily. MacMillan notes that the name is not easy to define and suggests ‘field of the hospitable sons’.

The old forms suggest an evolution from mac to magh. Informants TM and AK were clear that the element in question was magh not mac, although the name was not transparent to either. A similar form is found in the neighbouring Blairmacdrynie (NN115684) whose meaning is also unclear, but the final element points to droighnich ~ place of thorns.

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