English / Map Form: Uppat
Gaelic Form: Upaid
Location: Brora
Post Town: BRORA
Postcode area: KW9
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Uppat
Gaelic Form: Upaid
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
terrarum de Uppet 1510 ER xiii 329
Uppate 1563 RSS v 1463
Uppait 1564 RSS v 1704
Vppat 1566 Sutherland Charters 103
Uppat 1566 RSS v 2718
Wppet 1581 Sutherland charters
Vppat 1654 Blaeu Map Southerlandia
‘Pro. Oopait or oopaid. N. upp, high, and att, quarter or part, in reference to its situation above the Dall of Brora and the meadows along the Brora river.’ MacKay, 1894, 178.
Upait: Robertson Collection MS359a
Upait: Watson CW9
upaǯ: Nancy Dorain 1964(MacKay, 3)[This represents upaid over upait]
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