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.