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Mucomir

Magh Comair

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Meaning

the confluence of the plain


Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NN184839


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.

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