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Torlundy

Tòrr Lunndaidh

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Meaning

eminence of the marsh


Settlement

Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

PH33

NN145765


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.

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