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Carn Eighe

Càrn Èite


Upland Feature

Location

Ross and Cromarty

Highland

IV4

NH124262


English / Map Form: Carn Eighe

Gaelic Form: Càrn Èite


Post Town: BEAULY

Postcode area: IV4

County: Ross and Cromarty

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Carn Eighe

Gaelic Form: Càrn Èite


Language Notes

 G nom. sg. of G càrn, masc. ‘cairn, hill’

Sources

Carn Èit Robertson
Càrn-éite Watson 1904, 182
Carn Eite Ronald Burn diaries

 

Additional Information

“Carn Eige should be Carn Eite. Recent editions of the Scottish Mountaineering Club’s Hillwalkers’ Guide The North-west Highlands (by D. Broadhead, A. Keith & T. Maden 2004), the SMC book The Munros (Edited by D. Bennet 1999), and the SMC book Munro’s Tables (by D.A. Bearhop 1997) refer to this hill as Carn Eighe and the first two of the three books translate this as file peak or file hill. This is fanciful change, adduced with no evidence from fieldwork with local residents and ignoring the literature on place names. W.J. Watson in his 1904 book clearly showed that it was Carn Eite, and presented a local rhyme involving it and Mam Sodhail. Ronald Burn recorded it likewise. My local informants also called it Carn Eite.” Adam Watson, personal communication

Munro M012, 1183m

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