English / Map Form: Rogart
Gaelic Form: Sgìre Raoird
Post Town: ROGART
Postcode area: IV28
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Rogart
Gaelic Form: Sgìre Raoird
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
| Ecclesiam de Rothegorth | 1222-45 Sutherland Charters 4 | ||
| Littill Roart | 1525 Sutherland Charters 74 | ||
| Litile Rowart | 1562 Sutherland Charters 98 (Roartbeig in OPS 632) | ||
| Litill Reord | 1566 Sutherland Charters 103 | ||
| Rogartmoir | 1584 Sutherland Charter Chest (Sutherland Book I, 145) | ||
| Lytill Rogart | 1616 Retours (Sutherland) 3 | ||
| Rogartc | 1650? Macf. Geog. Coll iii, 101 | ||
| RogartK | 1654 Blaeu Map Southerlandia | ||
| Little Rogart, Mickle Rogart | 1820 Thomson | ||
[Mickle to north east of Rogart,
with Little Rogart to the north of Mickle,]
| Raghairt (gen.) | 1846 An Fhianuis | |
| Raigheard | 1875 Am Fèillire | |
| ‘Raoird’ MacKay | 1893, 186 |
Gaelic pronunciation is Raoird 1897 Gunn, Sutherland and Reay Country, 166 Rao-ard Robertson Collection MS359a, 82
anns Raoghard: Robertson, Sutherland Gaelic, 1907, 117
Sgire Rao’ird* / Raoghard – CR / Ròghard – Rob Donn: Dwelly
[,ski’’rW:rd]; Sgìr’ Raoghard: Dorian, East Sutherland Gaelic, 215
Röð-garð Ridge-farm Johnston 1909
Additional Information
Whilst Raoird or Raord is the pronunciation, Robertson in his Sutherland Gaelic states that intervocalic –gh- can be pronounced silently. Dorian gives such a pronunciation but spells it with the -gh-.
