English / Map Form: Torlundy
Gaelic Form: Tòrr Lunndaidh
Location: Lochaber, Highland
Post Town: FORT WILLIAM
Postcode area: PH33
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A82
English / Map Form: Torlundy
Gaelic Form: Tòrr Lunndaidh
Language Notes
Now understood as: G nom. sg. tòrr, masc. 'eminence' + gen. sg. *lunnd 'marsh'Element Meaning
G tòrr ~ eminence; lunnd ~ marsh
Sources
| Teilundie | 1636-52 Gordon 36 |
| Tirlundie | 1642 RMS ix no. 1254 |
| Terlundie | 1654 Blaeu Map (Breadalbane) |
| Torlundy | 1820 Thomson |
| Torlundy | 1874-76 OS 6 inch 1st edn. |
| Torr Lunndaidh | MacKinnon |
| Lundie = lunndán, smooth grassy place, a marshy spot’ | Watson 1926, 450. |
Additional Information
Old forms of this name point to Tìr Lunndaidh, ‘land of the marsh’, however, no Gaelic speaker now knows the name as this, so the name must be considered to have evolved into its current form.