English / Map Form: Muthill
Gaelic Form: Maothail
Location: Muthill
Post Town: CRIEFF
Postcode area: PH5
County: Perthshire
Local Authority: Perth and Kinross
English / Map Form: Muthill
Gaelic Form: Maothail
Language Notes
Element Meaning
maoth + ail, ‘soft place’
Sources
Mothel 1172×1173 RRS ii no 136
Maothail, Maoil: Robertson
Maothail: Watson (2002) 1909, 82
mi̯:il: Diack MS2276, 39
Mao’ail: 1851 Orain le Gilleaspuig Caimbeul aig Ceann-Loch-Earn, 49
Additional Information
Thanks to Adam Watson’s dissertation for forms and analysis.
