English / Map Form: Glen Orchy
Gaelic Form: Gleann Urchaidh
Post Town: DALMALLY
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
Nearest Main Roads: B8074
English / Map Form: Glen Orchy
Gaelic Form: Gleann Urchaidh
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
| ..in Orchy Gaelic Urchaidh… In Perthshire we have always heard Urcha for Orchy | Robertson, MS417b, 4 | |
| Gleannurcha | 1801 Orain Ghaelach le Iain MacGhrigair, 32 | |
| Glen-orchy, Gaelic Urchaidh…. It must be said that on the Perthshire side Orchy is Urchadh | Watson 2002 (1910) 95 | |
| in Breadalbane Gleann Urcha (not Gl. urchadh as W.J.W., in Celt Review VI, 238) | Robertson, MS423, 60 | |
| Gleann Loch Urcha, abhainn Urcha and not Urchaidh |
Additional Information
Robertson’s statement that the form is Urcha seems to be from a Perthshire Gaelic perspective. He himself says it is locally Urchaidh. In any case there does seem to be some confusion between this name and the Argyll Orchy.
