English / Map Form: Rosal
Gaelic Form: Rosal
Location: Kinbrace
Post Town: KINBRACE
Postcode area: KW11
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Rosal
Gaelic Form: Rosal
Genitive Form: Rosail
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Rossoll 1529 Sutherland Charters 81
Rosall 1566 Sutherland Charters 103
Rossol 1654 Blaeu Map Southerlandia
“..Rossal is for [Norse] hross-völlr, ‘horse field’ its grass is still regarded as hurtful to cattle but not to horses’ Watson 2002 (1930) 235
Hross-vollr, ‘’horse-field’’, Rosswell in 1553
O.G. Ros, promontory, and ail, rock, MacKay 1896, 187
Additional Information
There are three sites with this name, Rosal in Strathnaver, Rossal in Rogart and Rosehall. This is ON hross-vollr, ‘horse field’ or maybe fjall, ‘hill’.
This is a hill, by Beinn Rosail and Loch Rosail
Rosal Township ~ Baile Rosail