English / Map Form: Loch Voil
Gaelic Form: Loch (a’) Bheothail
Location: Strathyre
Post Town: Callander
County: Perthshire
Local Authority: Stirling
English / Map Form: Loch Voil
Gaelic Form: Loch (a’) Bheothail
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
(Loch-a-Bheothuill) The loch of the quick-running flood.: Rev. A. M. MacGregor, 1886, Translation of the Gaelic names of places in the Parish of Balquhidder
(Loch-a-Bheothuil)—The loch of the quick-running flood.: Carnegie 1896, 616
Loch Bheothail: Watson in Dwelly
Loch Bhoill: Newton [marked with an asterisk meaning the name is ‘conjectural and cannot be derived with absolute certainty’]
Loch a’ Phuill “Loch Bheothail heard by an old shepherd from an old native of Balquhidder who died many years ago” Jas. McDiarmaid: Robertson
Loch a’ Phuill: From Rev J. MacIntosh: Robertson
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