English / Map Form: Huntly
Gaelic Form: Hunndaidh
Location: Aberdeenshire
Post Town: HUNTLY
County: Aberdeenshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Huntly
Gaelic Form: Hunndaidh
Language Notes
Huntlie 1549 RMS iv, 366 [et al]Baronie de Huntlie alias Strathbolgyie 1560 Records of Aboyne, xviii
Sources
| Morair Hunndaidh | 1841 ‘Oran air Blar na h-Olaind’ from Sar-obair nam Bard Gaelach |
| Morair Hundaidh | 1860 Popular Tales of the West Highlands, iv, 180 |
| Hunndaidh | Am Fèillire 1873, 16 |
| Hundaidh | Celtic Magazine 1887, 424-5 [both forms used] |
| Baile Hundaidh | Mac-Talla, 1892 vol I, no. 5 |
Huntly is in Gaelic Hundaidh, MacBain in Transactions 16, 1899
Strathbogie: sra-bhalgan, sra-valgi, sra-valagi; this is the Gaelic for Huntly: Diack Inscriptions, 183
Additional Information
See Alexander 1954, 301. This is a name transferred from Berwickshire. It was previously called Srath Bhalgaidh or Strathbogie and this was according to Alexander remembered in the 1950’s. The name is now Hunndaidh in Gaelic.
