English / Map Form: Milton
Gaelic Form: Baile a’ Mhuilinn
Location: Easter Ross, Highland
Post Town: INVERGORDON
County: Ross and Cromarty
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Milton
Gaelic Form: Baile a’ Mhuilinn
Language Notes
G nom. sg. baile, masc. ‘town’ + masc. gen. sg. def. art. a’ (leniting) + lenited gen. sg. muileann,masc. ‘mill’ = ‘the town of the mill’Element Meaning
G baile ~ town; muileann ~ mill
Sources
| Miltoun Cast. | c. 1590 Pont map 20 |
| terris de Mylntoun de Meddat | 1623 Retours (Ross and Cromarty) no. 65 |
| Miltoun | 1654 Blaeu Map (Moray) |
| village lately called Milnetoun | 1681 RPS [1681/7/156] |
| Milton | 1745 Moll’s Shire of Ross and Cromartie |
| Milton | 1880 OS 6 inch 1st edn. |
| G. Bail’ a’ mhuilinn | Watson 1904, 204 |