English / Map Form: Bourblach
Gaelic Form: Buarblach
Location: Lochaber, Highland
Post Town: MALLAIG
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Bourblach
Gaelic Form: Buarblach
Sources
There seem to be three instances of places with a similar or the same element:
| Worblaich | 1610 RMS viii no. 264 |
| Worthblach | 1610 RMS viii no. 344 |
| terras de Worklach | 1627 Retours (Inverness) no. 47 |
| Worthblaich | 1634 RMS ix no. 7 |
| North Bethe | 1667 RMS xi no. 1105 |
| terras de Northblyth | 1695 Retours (Inverness) no. 118 |
| Barblach | 1747-55 Roy |
| Borblach | 1820 Thomson |
| Bourblach | 1876 OS 6 inch 1st edn. |
| ’s a’ Bhua˘orblaich Tigh na Buarblaich | Robertson |
| [boo.rbloi:g] | MacDonald |
Additional Information
“BUARBLAIC (G. Buarblaig) is, perhaps, more difficult to account for than any other name in the district. The suggestion has been made that it might consist of three Norse words, borg + bol + vik, meaning fort-steading-bay.’ This derivation seems, however, to be a trifle farfetched.”: Henderson 1915, 156
