English / Map Form: Morar
Gaelic Form: Mòrar
Location: Lochaber, Highland
Post Town: MALLAIG
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A830
English / Map Form: Morar
Gaelic Form: Mòrar
Language Notes
Possibly mòr, 'large' + dobhar 'water' = 'large water'Element Meaning
possibly mòr ~ large; dobhar ~ water
Sources
| ?Mordhowor | 1343 Robertson’s Index, 100 |
| Moreovyr | 1371 RMS i no. 412 |
| Morowore | 1373 RMS i no. 520 |
| Morowre | 1538 RSS ii no. 2498 |
| Murrours | c. 1620 Pont text 85v |
| Moror | 1695 Retours (Argyle) no. 93 |
| Mòrthir | Poems of Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, 1924, 152 |
| Mórar | Watson 1926, 124 |
| Morar | Diack, Place-names of Pictland, i, 142 |
| Morair | Dieckhoff 1932 [phonetic spelling however suggests Mòrair] |
| Mòrar | Robertson MS363, 90 |
Additional Information
The earliest form may well not be correct, surviving only in Robertson’s Index. If it is bona fide however, the above derivation seems likely.
