English / Map Form: Montrose
Gaelic Form: Mon Rois
Location: Angus
Post Town: MONTROSE
County: Angus
Local Authority: Angus
English / Map Form: Montrose
Gaelic Form: Mon Rois
Language Notes
Element Meaning
G mon, monadh ~ moor; ros ~ wood
Sources
montròs: Book of Clanranald, 175
monrosh: Diack MS2276 [Strathardle informant]
mon-rŏsh: Diack MS2276
in Gaelic Mon-rois: Watson 1926, 496
Monrois: Dieckhoff [‘old Braemar Gaelic’]
