English / Map Form: Coldbackie
Gaelic Form: Callbacaidh
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Coldbackie
Gaelic Form: Callbacaidh
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
| Caltabacky | c. 1591 Pont map 2r |
| Caldbaggy | 1747-55 Roy |
| Coulbackie | 1832 Burnett |
“Coldbackie N., Kaldi, cold, and bakki, ridge, kald-bakki, the cold ridge.” MacKay 1891, 122
G. Callbacaidh Watson 2002 (1906), 67
Collbagaidh (Coullb-) Robertson Collection MS358, 52
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