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