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Inverness / Re: Local Place-Names (Houses, Hills, Fields et al)
« on: Tuesday 09 December 25 14:44 GMT (UK) »Feasgar math a h-uile duine!
Before I begin, I'd like to underline that the purpose of this request is to eventually make it easier for individuals to track down their ancestors and understand the landscape, society and culture in which they lived.
I'm a researcher from Inverness who is seeking to gather as many local place names from the city itself and the areas immediately surrounding the city that are either forgotten, have fallen out of use or have gone unrecorded. I'm particularly interested in old house names, field names of farms/crofts/small-holdings (and the name of said places themselves), the names of old townships, features such as small mounds, streams and rocks - basically anything you can think of that enables us to reconstruct the part of the world in which your ancestors lived.
Hello MacIlleDhuibh
I'm also interested in the ancient meanings of old place names. You might have already experienced the same frustration as me. That is, finding that many written place names were first recorded as transliterations by lowland Scots, who may have only spoken English, and knew not the Gaelic. So the spelling and meaning both got corrupted or lost in translation.
One person I have found that might have found a way round that linguistic road block is Sheila McGregor.
Here's one of her websites.
Mesolithic Survival in Highland Scotland
http://aberfeldy.wikidot.com/
She also has a set of books on Amazon UK
