Genitive Form: na Cròic

Additional Information

’s a Chròig: J. MacFadyen, An t-Eileanach, p. 95

A’ Chroic: Am Feillire, 1873, p. 28

“G. a chròic; ‘gillean na cròic’ occurs in a Strathcarron song; the word is thus feminine. It may be a locative of cròc, an antler, thus meaning ‘a branching glen, or side glen,’ which would suit the locality; a locative of cròg, paw, hand, is also possible, in which sense the common ‘glaic’ might be compared. The latter meaning suits the Croick in Glencasley, Sutherland. A diminutive of cro, sheep-fold, has been suggested, but the difficulty here is that cro, being masculine, would give cro-an, unless, indeed, we may suppose crò to have been dialecticaily feminine.” Watson 1904 pp. 10-11