English / Map Form: Creise
Gaelic Form: A’ Chrèise
Location: Bridge of Orchy
Post Town: Bridge of Orchy
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Creise
Gaelic Form: A’ Chrèise
Language Notes
Sources
Na Crèisean: Robertson [headform is Sròn na Creise]
Creisean = deer fat… Creisean is only Matheson’ s name for the 3600 point, not MacLaren’ s. Coire: R. Burn diary
Aired nan Creisein – the heights of Creisen: 1862, A treatise on the language, poetry, and music of the Highland clans, 10 [poetry]
Additional Information
Munro M050, 1100m
In the poem of “Nic Coiseam,” the place names are mostly outside Glen Etive. “Na creisean ” is a steep rocky face beyond Dalness.
Nearby is Sròn na Creise. There would appear to be more than one point called Creise with the range called Na Crèisean, this peak is one of them.
