English / Map Form: Pitfure
Gaelic Form: Baile a’ Phùir
Location: Rogart
Post Town: ROGART
Postcode area: IV28
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Pitfure
Gaelic Form: Baile a’ Phùir
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
de Petfure 1510 ER xiii 329
Petfuire 1563 RSS v 1463
Pitfure 1564 RSS v 1704
Pitfuyr 1566 Sutherland Charters 103
Pitfour 1566 Sutherland Charters 103
Petfoure 1566 RSS v 2718
Petfuir 1654 Blaeu Map Southerlandia
Baile-a-phiuthair, home-stead of the “sister.” MacKay 1893, 186
Baile-phiùir Robertson Collection MS359a, 82
G. Baile-fiùr (Pit-fiùr heard, but not now used): Watson CW9
Baile Phùir: Watson in Dwelly
