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Bourblach

Buarblach

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Location

Highland

NM672934


English / Map Form: Bourblach

Gaelic Form: Buarblach


Location: Lochaber, Highland

Post Town: MALLAIG

County: -- Select a county --

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

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