Lòn na Searraich
Lòn na Searraich
Meaning
the burn of the young hourse
Location
Inverness-shire
Highland
NG654178
English / Map Form: Lòn na Searraich
Gaelic Form: Lòn na Searraich
Location: Heaste
Post Town: Isle of Skye
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Lòn na Searraich
Gaelic Form: Lòn na Searraich
Language Notes
Element Meaning
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This name was gathered as part of a local research project on the place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye and was published in a booklet by SNH and AÀA. The Following quote appears in that booklet:
“Allt is the de facto element in Gaelic meaning a ‘small watercourse’, but on Skye the term lòn can also mean a ‘small burn, especially with marshy banks’.1 Close to Heaste are two burns next to each other: Lòn na Searraich, ‘the burn of the young horse’, and Lòn na h-Earba, ‘the burn of the young deer’. Nearby is Lòn an Fheòir, ‘the burn of the grass’.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: Place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye (Scottish Natural Heritage 2015): 20
This place-name is not found on any maps.
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