English / Map Form: Leanachan
Gaelic Form: An Lèanachan
Location: Spean Bridge
Post Town: Spean Bridge
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Leanachan
Gaelic Form: An Lèanachan
Language Notes
an, `the' + lèanachan, `little meadow'.Sources
Lenachan: 1580-1661 Robert Gordon’s Counties of Scotland
Lenachan: 1654 Blaeu Atlas of Scotland,
Lianachan: 1874 Ordnance Survey 6 inch 1st edn.
Leanachan: 1912 Bartholomew’s Map
Lòn Leanachain = Lòn Lianachain
Coille Lèanachain = Coille Lianachain
Leanachan `small plain’: MacKinnon
lèanachan = plural of lèana: Cox
