English / Map Form: Rosehearty
Gaelic Form: Ros Abhartaich
Location: Moray
Post Town: FRASERBURGH
County: Aberdeenshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Rosehearty
Gaelic Form: Ros Abhartaich
Language Notes
Element Meaning
G ros ~ headland; Àbhartach ~ personal name
Sources
“…Abhartach, whence the name of the Irish sept hUi Abartaich (Rawl. B. 502, 159 b), appears in Rossawarty, 1508 (RMS), ‘ Abhartach’s cape,’ now Roshearty near Fraserburgh.” Watson 1926, 236-7
