English / Map Form: Loch Ashie
Gaelic Form: Loch Aithisidh
Post Town: INVERNESS
Postcode area: IV2
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Loch Ashie
Gaelic Form: Loch Aithisidh
Element Meaning
L. a’əʃi Diack Ms2276
Aisidh, a Norse prince or leader but I’ve heard it is really loch of strife (aisith).: Socttish Place-name Survey Material
“The Gaelic is Loch and Druim Ath(a)isidh”: W. J. Watson Topographical Varia iv, The Celtic Review, Vol. 7, No. 25 (Feb., 1911), pp. 68-81
“In Gaelic Loch Athaisidh, from ath-innis, a worn-out or useless meadow, genitive ath-innse”1924 Tales of Old Days on the Aldorie Estate, Transactions, 148 [Editor’s note, possibly Watson]
A’ishidh (Ashie): Notes on the Place-names of Tordarroch, Duntelchaig and Dunlichity by Iain MacKay Clan Chattan vol iv, no 1 Dec 1959 33-37
Additional Information
See also Drumashie.