English / Map Form: Rothiemay
Gaelic Form: Ràt a’ Mhaigh
Post Town: HUNTLY
Postcode area: AB54
County: Banffshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Rothiemay
Gaelic Form: Ràt a’ Mhaigh
Sources
“the second part is the genitive of G. magh, a plain.” Watson 1926, 378 [in discussion about Roth names ]
“The Gaelic in actual use was hard to find, but on Speyside an Abernethy man gave Rat a’ mhaigh; and doubtless this is correct…. Rat a’ mhaigh means “the fort or fortified residence of the flat.”” Diack Aberdeen Free Press 29.4.1911
