English / Map Form: Strath Stack
Gaelic Form: Srath Stac
Location: Lairg
Post Town: LAIRG
Postcode area: IV27
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Strath Stack
Gaelic Form: Srath Stac
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Strahe Stack c. 1591 Pont map 3 [e of strahe has a breve over it, but this could be for a tilda, which would represent *Strahen]
Stack Glen 1820 Thomson
Strath an Staca 1907 The Geological Structure of the North West Highlands 299
The primary feature here is Ben Stack or the Stack:
Bin Stack c. 1591 Pont map 3
Binnstack 1726 Macf. Geog. Coll, ii, 198
Stack 1747-55 Roy
L Stack 1654 Blaeu map Northern Scotland
Loghstalk Sutherland Book 2, 140
Loch Stack 1747-55 Roy
Lh Stack 1820 Thomson
Lake-Stack 1829 Robert MacKay
Ylen Loch Stack c. 1591 Pont map 3
Letyr Stack c. 1591 Pont map 3
Beinn-stac: Gunn
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