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Macharioch

Am Machaire Riabhach

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Meaning

the speckled plain


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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

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