English / Map Form: Dun Creich
Gaelic Form: Dùn Chraoich
Location: Ardgay
Post Town: Ardgay
County: Ross and Cromarty
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Dun Creich
Gaelic Form: Dùn Chraoich
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Forms for Creich:
Ecclesiam de Crech 1223-1245 Sutherland Charters 4
Creych 1275 Sutherland Charters 7
terras de Creich 1429-30 Caithness and Sutherland Records no. 170
Creigh c. 1650? Macf. Geog. Coll iii, 104
Creich 1654 Blaeu Map Southerlandia
Doun-Creigh c. 1650? Macf. Geog. Coll iii, 105
Doun-Creigh c. 1660 Macf. Geog. Coll ii 418
Doun-Crigh c. 1650? Macf. Geog. Coll iii, 141
Ruyns of the castel of Creich 1654 Blaeu Map Southerlandia
G Craoich Caithness and Sutherland Records Index.
G Craoich Watson 2002 (1906) 64
Craoich Robertson Collection MS359a, 90
Dun-Chraoich report to the Annual Assembly TGSI, 1838-9, xv, 5
Additional Information
c. 1650? Macf. Geog. Coll iii, 105: Doun-Creigh was built with a strange kind of Morter by one Paul Macktyre.
