English / Map Form: River Leven
Gaelic Form: Uisge Leamhain
Post Town: KINLOCHLEVEN
Postcode area: PH50
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: River Leven
Gaelic Form: Uisge Leamhain
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Uisge Leamhna: 1875 Am Feillire
Inbhir-leamhain Uisge Leamhain: Watson CW9 [in a list of Dumbartonshire / S. Argyll names, so presumably a place round Dumbarton]
Leven in Dumbarton = Uisge Leamhain: Watson CW9 77
Leamhan, gen. Leamhna: Newton
Uisge Leamhain: Am Filidh Latharnach le Calum Caimbeul MacPhàil 1947, 54
The name of the river from Loch Lomond is Leamhain, gen. Leamhna, Leven, meaning ‘ Elm-water.’ Its plain, the Vale of Leven, was Magh Leamhna, and Loch Lomond was of old Loch Leamhna,: Watson 1926, 119
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