English / Map Form: Ferness
Gaelic Form: Fearnais
County: Nairnshire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Ferness
Gaelic Form: Fearnais
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Fotherues 1208-15 Moray Reg. 46
Farnes 1567 RSS vi, 47
Fairness m., Fairness b c. 1591 Pont map 8
Fairnesmor 1654 Blaeu map: Moravia
Fearnais Diack 1921, 113
Additional Information
Assuming the Moray Reg. form is in error for *Forthernes, then a form of Foithirnis might be justified. Fearnais is the form which Watson gives for Farness in the Black Isle.
