English / Map Form: Sputie Burn
Gaelic Form: Allt Spùtaidh
Location: Brora
Post Town: BRORA
Postcode area: KW9
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Sputie Burn
Gaelic Form: Allt Spùtaidh
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Alt-spùtie. G. Sput, spout, in reference to its falling over a cliff, near the sea-shore, in the form of a waterfall, and, when in flood, jutting out its waters as from a spout: Mackay, 1894, 176.
Spùtie, Allt Robertson Collection MS359a, 228 (index)
Additional Information
Sputie is a small place at the foot of this burn, although it is not clear what came first.
