English / Map Form: Kenmore
Gaelic Form: A' Cheannmhor
Location: Wester Ross, Highland
Post Town: STRATHCARRON
County: Ross and Cromarty
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Kenmore
Gaelic Form: A' Cheannmhor
Language Notes
G nom. sg. def. art. a’ (leniting) + lenited nom. sg. ceann, masc. ‘head, end’ + nom. sg. masc. adj. mòr, ‘big’Element Meaning
G ceann ~ head; mòr ~ big
Sources
Kenmore | 1747-55 Roy |
Kenmore | 1820 Thomson |
Kenmore | 1850 Admiralty
Chart 2638 |
a’ Cheannmhor (pronounced a’ Cheannamhor) | Wentworth |
a’ Cheannmhor | Watson 1904, 207 |
a’ Cheannamhor | Robertson MS 357, 172 |
a’ Cheannamhor | Fraser 2009 |
Sròn a’ Cheanna-Mhuir | Current OS maps |