English / Map Form: Mucomir
Gaelic Form: Magh Comair
Location: Lochaber, Highland
Post Town: SPEAN BRIDGE
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: B8004
English / Map Form: Mucomir
Gaelic Form: Magh Comair
Language Notes
G nom. sg magh, masc. ‘plain’ + comar, masc. ‘confluence’ = ‘ the confluence of the plain’.Element Meaning
G magh ~ plain; comar ~ confluence
Sources
| Moymore | 1476 RMS ii no. 1243 |
| Nucomer | 1493 RMS ii no. 2191 |
| Mogomar | 1500 RMS ii no. 2559 |
| Mecomir | 1654 Blaeu Map (Hebrides) |
| Muckomer | 1682 RPS [1685/4/92] |
| Moucomer | 1820 Thomson |
| Macomar | 1841 Census SCT1841/99 ED 5 Kilmonivaig |
| Magh-Comair | MacMillan, 262 |
| Magh Comair | Watson 1926 241, 500 |
| Magh Comair | MacKinnon, 17 |
| Magh Coma(i)r | TM |
Additional Information
The non-lenition of the C- is due to eclipsis, see O’ Maolalaigh in Uses of Place-Names, 29 and Watson supra.