English / Map Form: Ruthven
Gaelic Form: Ruadhainn
Post Town: KINGUSSIE
Postcode area: PH21
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Ruthven
Gaelic Form: Ruadhainn
Sources
Ruadhainn pronounced almost as one syllable – Rua’inn.: Watson 1926, 388 [and further discussion]
air Ràth Ruadhainn: 1906 Sinton’s Poetry of Badenoch, 30 [‘on the flat of Ruthven’]
Ruadhainn: Dwelly [location not noted]
Ru-ing Diack MS2276
“the Gaelic for Ruthven as “ruan” (ruadhan?), red land, by his own translation.” MacGregor Gaelic Place-names in Strathspey, 306
Ruadhainn – red place: Glimpses of Church and Social Life in the Highlands in Olden Times by Alexander MacPherson 1893, p. 325