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Poyntzfield

no Gaelic form


Meaning

the high place


Location

Ross and Cromarty

Highland

IV7

NH710642


English / Map Form: Poyntzfield

Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form


Location: Black Isle and Mid Ross

Post Town: DINGWALL

Postcode area: IV7

County: Ross and Cromarty

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Poyntzfield

Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form


Element Meaning

G àrdach ~ high place

Sources

Ardoch 1670 Tain and Balnagown Docs no. 780
Poyntzfield 1765 Tain and Balnagown Docs no. 286
Pointfield 1785 Ainslie’s chart of part of the North of Scotland
Poynterfield 1791-1799 OSA (Kirkmichael), 540
Poyntzfield 1820 Thomson
“of old Ardoch, the high place” Watson 1904, 123

“So named in honour of his wife by Munro who after 1780 bought the estate previously called Ardoch, or the Gordon’s of Ardoch becoming extinct.” Robertson MS357, 96.

Additional Information

Although Watson says this was once called Ardoch, present maps show Ardoch somewhat North East of Poyntzfield and Poyntzfield Mains. Old Ross and Balnagown Documents no. 359 says the new name was coined in 1766.

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