English / Map Form: The Dark Mile
Gaelic Form: Am Mìle Dhorcha
Location: Lochaber, Highland
Post Town: SPEAN BRIDGE
Postcode area: PH34
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: The Dark Mile
Gaelic Form: Am Mìle Dhorcha
Language Notes
G am, nom. sg. fem. art. + G nom. sg. mìle, masc. ‘mile' + G dorcha, ‘dark’ = ‘the dark mile’Element Meaning
G mìle ~ mile; dorcha ~ dark
Sources
| The Mile Dhorcha , or the Dark mile | 1890 Highland Monthly vol I p. 674 |
| am mile dorcha | 1875 Watson, J. L. The Grand Highland Tour, 53 |
| Mile Dorcha | MacMillan 1971 |
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