English / Map Form: Errochty
Gaelic Form: Eireachdaidh
Post Town: PITLOCHRY
Postcode area: PH16
County: Perthshire
Local Authority: Perth and Kinross
English / Map Form: Errochty
Gaelic Form: Eireachdaidh
Language Notes
Element Meaning
River-name based on G eireachd, fem. ‘assembly’
Sources
Feachory Water 1783 Stobie/Perth
loch Erachtie c. 1591 Pont text 145r
Glen Eyrachty c. 1591 Pont map 19
Glen Erochkie, Erochkie Water 1783 Stobie/Perth
Erochy Water 1912 Bartholomew: Survey Atlas of Scotland
Eireachdaidh Robertson Collection MS 372, 86
Loch Eireachd 1912 Dwelly
Gleann Eireachdaidh Watson 1926, 439 & 491