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Gruids

Na Grùidean


Location

Sutherland

Highland

NC568041


English / Map Form: Gruids

Gaelic Form: Na Grùidean


Location: Ardgay

Post Town: Ardgay

County: Sutherland

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Gruids

Gaelic Form: Na Grùidean


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 

Sources

terras de Gruyde 1566 Sutherland Charters 103
?Grond 1616 Retours (Sutherland) 3
Barony of Gruids c. 1650? Macf. Geog. Coll iii, 102
Baronie of Gruids 1654 Blaeu Map Southerlandia

“grudeach, liquified to gruideach, the old meaning of which was grit, and grit stones,, hence Gruids would mean stony, gritty land” MacKay 1893, 112 Gruids (Lairg) is an English plural of G. na Grùidean. Watson 2002 (1906), 59

‘Gruids (Lairg) is Na Gruidean’ Caithness and Sutherland Records 298

Additional Information

Gruids Wood ~ Coille nan Grùidean

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