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Portlethen

Port Leathain

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Meaning

port of the slope


Location

Kincardineshire

Aberdeen

AB12

NO922966


English / Map Form: Portlethen

Gaelic Form: Port Leathain


Location: Kincardineshire

Post Town: ABERDEEN

Postcode area: AB12

County: Kincardineshire

Local Authority: Aberdeen

English / Map Form: Portlethen

Gaelic Form: Port Leathain


Language Notes

G nom. sg. port, masc. ‘harbour’ + gen. sg. fem. def. art. na + gen. pl. of G leathan, 'slope (leading to a port)'  

Element Meaning

G port ~ harbour’ + G leathan ~ slope  

Sources

terras de Proclaithin 1527 RMS iii, 559
Portlethin 1529 RMS iii, 878
terrarum de Portlathin 1557 RMS iv, 1148
baroniam de Portlethin 1608 RMS vi, 2122
Portlathin 1608 Records of the Sherriff court of Aberdeenshire ii, 136
Portlethin 1610 Records of the Sherriff court of Aberdeenshire ii, 154
baroniam de Portlethin 1625 RMS viii, 707

baroniam de Portlethin 1637 RMS ix, 725
Port-Lethin 1654 Blaeu Map Aberdeen/Banff
barony of, harbour of Porthlethin 1659 RMS x, 680
barony of Porthlethen 1667 RMS xi, 1042
Port Lethon 1747-55 Roy
Portlethon, Portlethon Shore 1820 Thomson [also Port moss, and Seat Town of Porlethon]

Additional Information

Leathan Grange is in Portlethen, along with some building names with Leathan.
Leathan here is in the sense of a slope leading down to the port.

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