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Slatach House

Taigh na Slataich


Meaning

the house of the rodplace


Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NM898802


English / Map Form: Slatach House

Gaelic Form: Taigh na Slataich


Location: Lochailort

Post Town: Glenfinnan

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Slatach House

Gaelic Form: Taigh na Slataich


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Sources

This name was gathered as part of a local research project on the place-names of the Rough Bounds of Lochaber and was published in a booklet by SNH and AÀA. The Following quote appears in that booklet:

“Glenfinan Lodge Hotel is clearly visible from the loch. Roy’s map calls this Taynaslatich, i.e. Taigh na Slataich, but another house has this name in modern times. Its construction was funded by Ailean an Òir, ‘Allan of the gold’ a man who made his fortune in the Jamaican plantations. It was a seminary for some time before being used briefly as a hunting lodge at the start of the Twentieth Century. Slatach means abounding in rods or twigs, which is consistent with the shrubby growths in the area. Nonetheless it is interesting to note that Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, in his quote above, uses the word to denote fihing rods. Abhainn Shlatach may have given its name to the house and nearby Camas nan Slataiche.”

Gaelic in the Landscape: The Rough Bounds of Lochaber (Scottish Natural Heritage 2013): 12

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