Local Place-Names (Houses, Hills, Fields et al)

[hanes teulu]

Spotted this map in Robert Heron's 1791 "Scotland delineated ....". Cannot quite make out the place between Inverness and Calder - looks like "Pretty"? Can you clarify? 

[Forfarian]

It looks like Pretty but it's Petty. It's a parish between Inverness and Nairn. The largest village in the parish is Ardersier. 

[Calleva]

A digression but hope of interest about ‘Calder’ shown close by Petty. It is shown on more modern maps as ‘Cawdor’. This change was made by the local Laird in the early 19th Century in order to match Shakespeare’s designation of Cawdor as referred to in ‘Macbeth’.

https://www.cawdorestate.co.uk/about-the-estate/history/

Not sure of the correct linguistic description of ‘reverse engineering’!

Oh, we’re looking forward to going to the Christmas Market at Cawdor Castle this weekend!

[hanes teulu]

It looks like Pretty but it's Petty. It's a parish between Inverness and Nairn. The largest village in the parish is Ardersier.

Thanks - the "P" index when I checked it only included Pettycur. I see it as "Petty" here -
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-set-of-thirty-six-new-_moll-herman_1725/page/n29/mode/2up

These older maps tend not to "drill down"

[Forfarian]

Isn't Pettycur in Fife? Nowhere near Inverness.

See https://stataccscot.ed.ac.uk/static/statacc/dist/parish/Inverness/Pettie

[hanes teulu]

Yes - the index was Scotland wide, not simply Inverness.