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
