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Pollin

Am Pollan


Location

Sutherland

Highland

IV27

NC072264


English / Map Form: Pollin

Gaelic Form: Am Pollan


Location: Lairg

Post Town: LAIRG

Postcode area: IV27

County: Sutherland

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Pollin

Gaelic Form: Am Pollan


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 

Sources

‘Polin G., corruption of Pollan, dim. of poll, a pond, a pool, or marsh, giving the name to the locality.’ MacKay 1889, 59.

Polin 1747-55 Roy
Pollan 187x OS map

This is by Bàgh a’ Phòllain:

Bàgh a’ Phollain 1870s OS
Bàgh a’ Phòllain 1900s OS
Bàgh a’ Phòllain 1960s OS

This would appear to be a masculine form of the diminutive of poll, which is normally polla(i)g.

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