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Huntly

Hunndaidh

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Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire

NJ528398


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.

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