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Oldshoremore

Àisir Mhòr


Location

Sutherland

Highland

IV27

NC207585


English / Map Form: Oldshoremore

Gaelic Form: Àisir Mhòr


Location: Lairg

Post Town: LAIRG

Postcode area: IV27

County: Sutherland

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Oldshoremore

Gaelic Form: Àisir Mhòr


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 

Sources

Altassmore 1429 RMS ii, 148
Altasbeg, Altasmore 1541 RMS iii, 2336
Altasbeg, Altesmoir 1541 RMS iii, 2380
Aslairmoir, Aslarbeg 1555 RSS iv, 3060
Aslarmoir, Aslarbeg 1551 RSS, iv 1372
Altesbeg… Altesmore 1551-52 RSS iv, 1504
Altesbeg… Altesmoir 1553-54 RSS iv, 2467
Altesbeg… Altesmoir 1553-54 RSS iv, 2471
Altesbeg… Altesmoir 1555-56 RSS iv, 3124
Altesbeg, Altismoir 1556 RMS iv, 1026
Altasbeg, Altasmoyr 1563 RMS iv, 1455
Alstherlarbeg and Alsthelarmoir 1570 Sutherland Book i, 140
Aslercarmoir, Aslercarbeg 1588 Sutherland Book i, 157
Altesbeg, Altesmoir 1589 RMS v, 1647
Altesbeg, Altesmoir 1598 RMS vi, 801
Astirlairmoir (vel Astirmoir), Astirlairbege (vel Astirbeg) 1605 Retours (Sutherland), 2
Altegbeg, Altegmoir 1608 RMS vi, 2061
Altasbeg, Altasmoir 1618 RMS vii, 1760
terras de Altasmoir x2, terras de Altasbeg 1621 RMS viii, 227
Ashar 1654 Blaeu map Nothern Scotland
Oldshirebeg and Oldshire moar 1726 Macf. Geog. Coll, ii, 199
Lands of Ashir 1791-99 OSA Sutherland, Edderachillis, 286
Old Sharesmor 1820 Forbes
Old Shores 1820 Thomson
Old Shores mor 1747-55 Roy

‘Ashir, mhor G., contracted from Fas-thir, meaning productive, or cultivable land’ MacKay 1889, 53.

Blarmor – Àisear Robertson MS
isir Watson 2002 (1906), 74
Aisir (a long): Watson in MacBain, 1922

‘Gaelic pronunciation is Ashar’: Gunn
Àisir Mhòr, Bheag: S Grannd’s list for Taigh Gàidhlig Mhealanais

Hals-eyjar(-vik) neck island, or A’sleifars(-vik) after A’sleifar-son.: Old-lore Miscellany, vol ii

Additional Information

 This is by Loch Aisir Mòr (though these is Loch na Fas Thire 1870s OS). Perhaps this stands for *Àillsir.

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