English / Map Form: Liveras
Gaelic Form: Laoghras
Location: Broadford
Post Town: Isle of Skye
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Liveras
Gaelic Form: Laoghras
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Lūbhras: Robertson MSs
Laoghras: ‘Place-names in the Parish of Strath, Skye’ NLS Acc9711/5
This name was gathered as part of a local research project on the place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye and was published in a booklet by SNH and AÀA. The Following quote appears in that booklet:
“The area Liveras Park is a small place nowadays, but Liveras, Laoghras or Ladhras, once denoted the whole of the north-west side of Broadford Bay. Laoghras is probably a Norse name of unknown origin.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: Place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye (Scottish Natural Heritage 2015): 40
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