Macharioch
Am Machaire Riabhach
Meaning
the speckled plain
Location
Argyll & Bute
Argyll & Bute
NR734094
English / Map Form: Macharioch
Gaelic Form: Am Machaire Riabhach
Location: Kintyre, Argyll
Post Town: CAMPBELTOWN
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Macharioch
Gaelic Form: Am Machaire Riabhach
Language Notes
G masc. nom. sg. def. art. am (before labials) + nom. sg of machair, fem. ‘plain’ + nom. sg. masc. adj. riabhach, ‘speckled’ = ‘the speckled plain’Sources
| Machry reoch | c. 1650 Gordon / Cantyre |
| Macrereache | 1619 Retours (Argyle) 21 |
| Machririoch | 1695 Retours (Argyle) 93 |
Machaire – riabhach: Records of Argyll, 34
Machaire Riabhach Colville 2009 (1938), 26