English / Map Form: Polnicol
Gaelic Form: Poll Neacail
Location: Easter Ross, Highland
Post Town: INVERGORDON
County: Ross and Cromarty
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Polnicol
Gaelic Form: Poll Neacail
Language Notes
G nom. sg. masc. poll, ‘pool, pond’ + gen. sg. Neacal, masc. personal name = ‘Neacal's Pool’Element Meaning
G poll ~ pool, pond; Neacal personal name
Sources
| Pollnicoll | 1678 Tain and Balnagown Docs no. 769 |
| the lands of Pollnicoll | 1681 RPS [1681/7/156] |
| Polnicoll | 1880 OS 6 inch 1st edn. |
| Poll Neacail, Nicol’s pool | Watson 1904, 64 |