English / Map Form: Munlochy
Gaelic Form: Poll Lochaidh
Location: Black Isle and Mid Ross
Post Town: MUNLOCHY
County: Ross and Cromarty
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Munlochy
Gaelic Form: Poll Lochaidh
Language Notes
G nom. sg. poll, masc. 'pool’ + en? Lochaidh, a hydronym meaning 'dark one’Element Meaning
G poll ~ pool; Lochaidh river-name
Sources
| Munlochy | c. 1620 Pont text 126v |
| Minlochiam (Latinised) | Geog. Coll. ii, 425 |
| Minlochy | 1654 Blaeu Map (Moray) |
| Munlochy | 1820 Thomson |
| “G Poll-lochaidh” | Watson 1904, 141 |
| mun-L6:Xi, Bun lo:Xi, | Diack Ms2276 |
| Pollochaidh | Robertson |
| pˈʊɫɔχi | Dorian |