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.
