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Loch Kinellan

Loch Cheann an Eilein

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Meaning

the loch of the end of the island


Location

Ross and Cromarty

Highland

NH470575


English / Map Form: Loch Kinellan

Gaelic Form: Loch Cheann an Eilein


Location: Black Isle and Mid Ross

Post Town: STRATHPEFFER

County: Ross and Cromarty

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Loch Kinellan

Gaelic Form: Loch Cheann an Eilein


Language Notes

G nom. sg. loch, masc. ‘loch’ + gen. sg. ceann, masc. ‘head, end’ + gen. sg. masc. def. art. an + gen. sg. eilean masc. ‘island’ = the end of Ceann an Eilein (‘the end of the island’)

Element Meaning

G loch ~ loch; ceann ~ head, end; eilean; island

Sources

Kynnellane 1565 RMS iv no. 1618
Kynnellane 1595 RMS vi no. 229
Kinnellane 1614 RMS vii no. 1115
Kynellane 1669 Retours (Ross) no. 124
Kynnellane 1681 Retours (Ross) no. 138
L. Kinnalan 1747-55 Roy

Cinn-eilein: Watson 1904, 99

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