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

Alternative Forms