English / Map Form: Loch Earn
Gaelic Form: Loch Èire
Location: Perth & Kinross & Stirlingshire
Post Town: LOCHEARNHEAD
County: Perthshire
Local Authority: Perth and Kinross
English / Map Form: Loch Earn
Gaelic Form: Loch Èire
Sources
Lochèirin | Orain Ghaelach le Iain MacGhrigair 1801,178 |
Loch Éireann now Loch Éir | Watson 1926, 228 |
Loch Èire | Tony Dilworth |
Ceann Loch Éir | Watson in Dwelly [Kinlochearn] |
Drochaid Éir | Watson in Dwelly [Bridge of Earn] |
Loch Éir(e) | Robertson MS272, 183 |
Drochaid Éireann, Dr. Éir(e) | Robertson MS272, 183 [Bridge of Earn] |
Earn, Loch & River, Perth Éire gen. Éireann | Robertson MS405 p. 173 |
Ceann Loch Èire | Mark Gaelic Dictionary |
Additional Information
This name is in origin Èire in the nominative, Èireann in the genitive. Now however in modern Gaelic the form is Èire.