English / Map Form: Broughty Ferry
Gaelic Form: Port Bhruachaidh
Location: Dundee
Post Town: DUNDEE
County: City of Dundee
Local Authority: Dundee City
English / Map Form: Broughty Ferry
Gaelic Form: Port Bhruachaidh
Language Notes
Element Meaning
port ‘ ferry’ + bruach bank + aidh = ‘bank place’
Sources
| Bruchy | 1456 (Fraser, Douglas) |
| Brochty | 1510 (RSS) |
| Brothly | 1511 (Fraser, Douglas) |
| Bruchtie | 1514 (S.C.Misc. V) |
| craig and place of Bruchty | 1547 (RPC) |
| Brughty Crage | 1547-8 (Stirling Recs) |
| Brouchty Craig | 1548 (Fraser, Melville) |
| Browchtie | 1548 (Fraser, Melville) |
| Castell of Bruchty | 1550 (RPC) |
| the Port of Brochty | 1550 (RPC) |
Additional Information
This name means ‘the ferry of Broughty’. Broughty is a place deriving from bruach ‘bank’ with the suffix -aidh.
