English / Map Form: Clunes
Gaelic Form: Na Cluainean
Location: Lochaber, Highland
Post Town: SPEAN BRIDGE
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Clunes
Gaelic Form: Na Cluainean
Language Notes
G na, nom. pl. fem. def. art. + G nom. pl. of cluain, fem. ‘pasture’ = ‘the pastures'Element Meaning
G cluain ~ pasture
Sources
| Clanyn | 1492 RMS ii no 2281 |
| Cloynyn | 1527 RMS ii no 534 |
| Clunys | 1544 RMS iii no. 3015 |
| Clunis | 1546 ER xviii appendix |
| Cloyne | 1552 RMS iv no. 704 |
| Cloyne | 1556 RMS iv no. 824 |
| Clwnis | 1567 ER xix appendix |
| Cloynes | 1609 RMS vii no. 26 |
| Clune | 1621 RMS viii no. 121 |
| Clunes | 1661 Retours (Inverness) no. 86 |
| Clunes | 1695 Retours (Argyle) no. 93 |
| Clunes | 1695 Retours (Inverness) no. 118 |
| Cluns | 1789 Ainslie/Scotland |
| Clunes | 1820 Thomson |
| Na Cluainean ‘the upland fields’ | MacMillan 1971 |
| Na Cluainean | Current OS maps. |
Additional Information
The first two historical forms show the Gaelic plural, whilst most of the remaining forms show the Scots/English plural.
