English / Map Form: The Glutt
Gaelic Form: An Glut
Post Town: HALKIRK
Postcode area: KW12
County: Caithness
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: The Glutt
Gaelic Form: An Glut
Sources
Glutt Water is a name for the upper reaches of River Thurso.
Fairly close by on Berriedale Water is a parallel construction of Allt Gluta flowing through An Glut. (ND1027) “An Glut i.e. A deep hollow or a place that swallows up” OS Namebooks OS1/7/15/185
“Ian Fraser recorded An Gluta The Gullet in Eilean nan Ròn (Scottish Studies no 229 p 87) for a narrow, steepsided gully or gullet separating two islands, and, by analogy, the above name may represent the “gulping” sound of the sea” Waugh, 118