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Rosal

Rosal


Location

Sutherland

Highland

KW11

NC694440


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

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