English / Map Form: Pittentrail
Gaelic Form: Baile an Tràill
Location: Sutherland, Highland
Post Town: ROGART
Postcode area: IV28
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Pittentrail
Gaelic Form: Baile an Tràill
Element Meaning
G baile ~ township; tràill ~ serf, slave
Sources
| Pettintraill | 1525 Sutherland Charters 74 |
| Pentraill | 1562 Sutherland Charters 98 |
| Pettintrail | 1563 RSS v 1463 |
| Pittintraill | 1566 Sutherland Charters 103 |
| Pettintraill | 1566 RSS v 2718 |
Baile-an-traill, MacKay 1893, 186
‘Pittentrail, G Baile an Tràill, may mean ‘thrall-stead’, in which case it is a post-Norse formation, G tràill being borrowed from Norse Thræll.’ Watson 2002 (1906), 59
Additional Information
Pittentrail Hill ~ Cnoc Bhaile an Tràill
