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