English / Map Form: Lair
Gaelic Form: Làire
Location: Applecross
Post Town: Strathcarron
County: Ross and Cromarty
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Lair
Gaelic Form: Làire
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
River Lair, Coire Laire, and Farm of Lair: from Làr in the sense of a low place, bottom.: Watson 1904, 196
Làire, Abhainn Làire: Robertson
Additional Information
In other places we have:
Port Làire Port of Lair; Lair is the name of the place, meaning probably here ‘low place.’: Watson 1904, 212
Beinn Làir To be taken in connection with Ardlàir ; there are two rocks near this promontory in L. Maree called an Lair, the mare, and an Searrach, the foal. The meaning is thus Mare-hill, and Mare-promontory.: Watson 1904, 233