English / Map Form: Wag
Gaelic Form: An Uamhag
Post Town: DUNBEATH
Postcode area: KW6
County: Caithness
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Wag
Gaelic Form: An Uamhag
Sources
Duagvegg 1747-55 Roy
Duaggbeg 1807 Arrowsmith
Uagbeg 1832 Thomson
’N Ũ’ag Robertson, p. 112
There is also Wagmore:
Duagmore 1747-55 Roy
Duaggmore1807 Arrowsmith
Uagmore 1832 Thomson
OS Namebooks refers to this as ‘the Wag’.
“The occasional place-name “Wag” or “Wagmore” occurring in their immediate vicinity [of some structures] seems to indicate their original designation, a term for which a derivation has been suggested in the Gaelic word uamh – a cave, with its diminutive uamheg – pointing to the fact that the completed structure under a roof must have presented a cave-like appearance.” Curle, A. O., The Excavation of the “Wag” or Prehistoric Cattlefold at Forse, Caithness PSAS 1947