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Meall Chuaich

Meall Chuaich


Upland

Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

PH20

NN716878


English / Map Form: Meall Chuaich

Gaelic Form: Meall Chuaich


Post Town: NEWTONMORE

Postcode area: PH20

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Meall Chuaich

Gaelic Form: Meall Chuaich


Sources

Meall Quoich 1747-55 Roy [with Loch Quoich]

Gaoth Meall-a-Chuaich – the Cup Hill Wind 1906 Sinton The Poetry of Badenoch, 30-32 [name of a poem]

Meall na Cuaich: MacBain Badenoch Atlas CW? viii, 6

This is close by: Loch Cuaich, Allt Cuaich, Coire Chuaich and Allt Coire Chuaich. These are on 1st OS map: Loch na Cuaich, Allt Cuaich, Allt Coire na Cuaich. Meall Chuaich is absent but there is Stac Meall na Cuaich.

OS Namebooks give for ‘various modes of spelling’ : Loch na Cuaich, Loch Cuaich and ‘Loch nan Cuach Lake of Cuckoos’.

Meall Chuaich, mjal’ xuəx lump-hill of the cup-shape’ : Watson Discoveries, 163

Additional Information

Munro M214, 951m

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