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Nigg

Neig

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Meaning

?the notch-place


Settlement

Location

Ross and Cromarty

Highland

IV19

NH804717


English / Map Form: Nigg

Gaelic Form: Neig


Location: Easter Ross, Highland

Post Town: TAIN

Postcode area: IV19

County: Ross and Cromarty

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Nigg

Gaelic Form: Neig


Language Notes

Obscure element, interpreted as An Eig: G nom. sg. fem. def. art. an + loc. sg. fem. of eag, ‘notch’ = ‘the notch-place’

Element Meaning

G eag ~ notch

Sources

apud Nig 1290 Expensae Dominorum Thomae de Braytoft
Eglise de Nig 1296 Ragman Rolls M 25 pp. 142-143
Nyg 1375 Moray Reg. 157
mansum de Nyg 1581 RMS iv no. 201
terrarum de Nig 1595 RMS v no. 371
mansum de Nig vel Tarbett 1611 RMS vii no. 482
Nig 1654 Blaeu Map (Moray)
villae et terrarum de Nig 1662 Retours (Ross and Cromarty) no. 119
parochiam de Nigg 1696 Retours (Ross and Cromarty) no. 161
Nigg 1880 OS 6 inch 1st edn.
G ’n eig the notch (locative of eag) Watson 1904, 50
nïk, an nïk not anns an for ‘in N[eig]’ / skir nïk [Sgìre Neig] Diack MS2276
Nigg Hill Binn Nuig = The Bishop’s Forest Robertson

Additional Information

‘The notch in question may be that cut by the bay of Nigg ; but it is noteworthy that the parish church, which has always apparently occupied the same site, stands on the edge of a Y-shaped gully, and on the analogy of other parish names it is perhaps safer to regard this gully as the notch which gave its name first to the church and then to the parish.: Watson 1904, 50

Applied to: Nigg Bay ~ Camas Neig (NH7772) and Nigg Links ~ Machair Neig

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