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Errocht

An Eireachd

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Meaning

the meeting place


Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NN143823


English / Map Form: Errocht

Gaelic Form: An Eireachd


Location: Lochaber, Highland

Post Town: SPEAN BRIDGE

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

Nearest Main Roads: B8004

English / Map Form: Errocht

Gaelic Form: An Eireachd


Language Notes

G masc. def. art. an (with t- before vowels) + nom. sg. eireachd, masc. ‘assembly, meeting’ = ‘the meeting place’.

Element Meaning

G eireachd ~ assembly, meeting place

Sources

terris de Arracht 1623 Retours (Inverness) no. 41
Arracht 1661 Retours (Inverness) no. 86
Eracht 1820 Thomson
Eireachd MacMillan, 258
An Earrachd, an t-Eireachd MacKinnon, 20
An Eireachd TM

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