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Loch Orrin

Loch Oirrinn

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Location

Ross and Cromarty

Highland

NH402503


English / Map Form: Loch Orrin

Gaelic Form: Loch Oirrinn


Location: Black Isle & Mid-Ross

Post Town: MUIR OF ORD

County: Ross and Cromarty

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Loch Orrin

Gaelic Form: Loch Oirrinn


Language Notes

G nom. sg. loch, masc. ‘loch’ + obscure element.

Element Meaning

G loch ~ hill; obscure element

Sources

Glenavaryn c. 1620 Pont text 125v
Orran c. 1723 Mac.Geog.Coll i, 211
Loch Oirrinn TSR2
Orthainn Watson 1904, 111
Abhainn Oirrinn Watson 1926, 472
Orrin, Glen = Gleann Orth(a)inn Robertson MS357, 84

Additional Information

This is actually Orrin Reservoir, built in the 1950s. The name Oirrinn derives from the glen and river. The original meaning of this name may derive from G oifreann, ‘offering’, see Watson 1926, 472-3.

Alternative Forms

Orrin Reservoir

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