English / Map Form: Rovie
Gaelic Form: Romhaigh
Location: Rogart
Post Town: Rogart
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Rovie
Gaelic Form: Romhaigh
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
terre de Ruchy 1363 Sutherland Charters 22
Rowiecraigtoune c. 1630 Sutherland Chartes 130
Rovie 1654 Blaeu Map Southerlandia
Ròmhaigh: Watson in Dwelly
Rovie in Sutherland is for ro-mhaigh, `excellent plain’ Watson 1926, 502
G. Ro, roth, rotha, monk’s name, and bhathaich, contracted into vich, vie, marshy fields. MacKay, 1893, 187
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