English / Map Form: Bught
Gaelic Form: Am Bucht
Location: Inverness, Highland
Post Town: INVERNESS
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A82
English / Map Form: Bught
Gaelic Form: Am Bucht
Language Notes
G nom. sg. masc. def. art. am + nom. sg. bucht, masc. ‘sheep fold’Element Meaning
G bucht ~ sheep fold
Sources
Historically the name was Cill Bheathain but modern Gaels refer to it as Am Bucht: Maclean 2004, 61
The English name is “pen”, while the Gaelic name is “Bean’s church”. Bught Park is known as Pàirc nam Bochd, “the park of the poor”, but this may be an attempt to interpret Bught as a Gaelic word: Mac an Tàilleir
Additional Information
This is a loan word from Scots bught, ‘sheep fold’. This is the ‘pen’ referred to in the Mac an Tàilleir quote.
