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Tummel Bridge

Drochaid Choinneachain

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Perth and Kinross

PH16

NN762594


English / Map Form: Tummel Bridge

Gaelic Form: Drochaid Choinneachain


Location: Perth & Kinross

Post Town: PITLOCHRY

Postcode area: PH16

County: -- Select a county --

Local Authority: Perth and Kinross

English / Map Form: Tummel Bridge

Gaelic Form: Drochaid Choinneachain


Language Notes

G nom. sg. drochaid, masc. ‘bridge’ + gen. sg. en. Coinneachan (from coinneach, ‘moss’) 

Element Meaning

G drochaid ~ bridge + G coinneach ~ moss

Sources

Drochaid Choinneachain (oi = aoi) Robertson Collection MS 372, 103
Drochaid Choinneachain Robertson Collection MS 373, 25
Drochaid Theimheil 1912 Dwelly
Drochaid Choinneachan 1980 Robertson, ‘Memories of Rannoch’ TGSI 51, 310

 

Additional Information

Robertson, in Memories of Rannoch says, ‘Tummel-bridge is known among Gaelic-speaking natives to this day as Drochaid Choinneachan (Bridge of Kynachan).

The bridge was built for General Wade by John Stewart of Kynachan in 1733 and for that reason is known locally as Kynachan Bridge.

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