English / Map Form: Struy
Gaelic Form: Sruidh
Location: Inverness area, Highland
Post Town: BEAULY
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Struy
Gaelic Form: Sruidh
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Ester Struse 1512 RMS, ii no. 3730
Lytiel Struy 1599 Chisholm Writs, no. 52
(Thomas Fraser of) Strowie 1638×43 RMS, ix no. 1410
Struy 1641 Chisholm Writs, no. 181
Stroweie 1675 NAS GD23, 10/124
Struy beg 1754 Kilmorack Parish register
Struidh: Robertson [underline may denote a dipthong]
Tigh-osda Shruidh; ann an Sruidh: Celtic Monthly, vol. xx, 14, 1912
Additional Information
Compare with Struie in Easter Ross which Watson 1904, 28 says is an t-srùidh, a contraction of sruth-aidh, an extension of the root of sruth, stream.
