English / Map Form: Inverurie
Gaelic Form: Inbhir Uaraidh
Location: Aberdeenshire
Post Town: INVERURIE
County: Aberdeenshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Inverurie
Gaelic Form: Inbhir Uaraidh
Language Notes
Element Meaning
G inbhir ~ confluence, river mouth; Uaraidh ~ river name, poss. meaning ‘landslip river’
Sources
| Ennroury | 1165-69 Historical Records of the Family of Leslie, p. 150 |
| Inuerury x2 | 1165×1214 Chr. Lindores, cxxxix |
| Inuerurin | 1172×1182 Chr. Lindores, i |
| ecclesiam de Inueruri, Inuerurin | c. 1198×1199 Chr. Lindores, ii |
| Inueruri | 1200-1207 Chr. Lindores, lxxxi |
| Inuerurin | 1202×1203 Chr. Lindores, ii |
| Inuerurin | x2 c. 1213 Chr. Lindores, xciv |
| Inueruri x2 | 1219×1232 Chr. Lindores, xv |
| Inueruri x3 | 1232×1237 Chr. Lindores, xvii |
| Inuerrury | 1232×1237 Chr. Lindores, xviii |
| Inueruri | 1253 Chr. Lindores, lxxxiv |
| Inuirury Inuyrowry | 1263 Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, I, 562 |
| Invethurin | 1291 Theiner cccxxxv |
| Inuerowry | 1297 Abd. Reg., i 37 |
| Inuerowry | 1366 Abd. Reg. ii, 55 |
| Inueruryn x2 | 1375 Chr. Lindores, xcii |
| Inuyrowry | 1424 Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, I, 555 |
| Enroury | 1432 Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, I, 556 |
| Inueroury | 1464 Abd. Reg., i 286, |
| Inueroury | 1467 Abd. Reg., i 287 |
| Inuerowry | 1469 Abd. Reg., i 289 |
| Inuerowry | 1464 Abd. Reg., i 293 |
| Inuerowry | 1466 Abd. Reg., i 297 |
| Inuerowrye, Inuerorye | c. 1470 Abd. Reg., i 306 |
| Inuerowry | 1476 Abd. Reg., i 311 |
| Inueroury | 1498 Abd. Reg., i 344 |
| fortre de Inverury | 1538 ER xvii, Libri Responsionum |
| Inueroury | 1540 Abd. Reg. ii 324 |
| Inueroury | 1548 Abd. Reg., i 423 |
| parochia de Inverurie | 1620 RMS viii, no. 13 |
| parochia de Inverurie | 1622 RMS viii, no. 296 |
| parochiam de Inverurie | 1622 RMS viii, no. 564 |
| terrarum de Inverurie | 1624 RMS viii, no. 653 |
| Inverury | 1625 Retours (Aberdeen) 194 |
| Inverurie | 1624 RMS viii, no. 1120 |
| Inverurie | 1624 RMS viii, no. 1477 |
| Inverurie | 1631 RMS viii, no. 1750 |
| Innerurie | 1643 Retours (Aberdeen) 270 |
| Innerourie | 1654 Retours (Aberdeen) 281 |
| Inverwrie | 1657 Retours (Aberdeen) 336 |
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Inner-uria |
1651×1660 Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, I, 22 |
| Inverurie | 1670 Retours (Aberdeen) 398 |
| Inverurie | 1683 Retours (Aberdeen) 457 |
| inner-uori | Diack Inscriptions, 183 |
| in Gaelic Inbhir-uaraidh | Diack in Aberdeen Free Press 15/4/1911 |
| Inbhir Uaraidh | Mark |
| inj?r u:r i | Tobar an Dualchais 70486 (0:41) |
Additional Information
See Beveridge 116 for old forms and MacDonald 1952, 304 and 405-6.