English / Map Form: Congash
Gaelic Form: Conagais
Post Town: GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY
Postcode area: PH26
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Congash
Gaelic Form: Conagais
Sources
Konigash oc: c. 1591 Pont map 6
Cõnig̥aʃ Diack MS2771/1
(Grantown) con-i-gash (Cameron) ‘narrowing of the water’ (Grant): Diack MS2276
Congash lies beyond the former L.N.E.R. Station of Grantown, and is from Con-innis, hound meadow. This is clear from the records, which are as follows: – Register of Moray 1226 and 1281, Conynges; 1464, Kunnyngais; 1690, Congess” Mathieson, Place-names of Strathspey, 228