Placename
Gaelic name: Goirtean Dubh (1)
Name in Original Source: Goirtean Dubh (1)
English meaning: Black corn-field
Placename feature: Field
Notes: (1) This name only appears on an Applecross Estate map of c.1810. There are two separate fields, number I and II, of 6.45 acres and 4.43 acres respectively. It appears to be marked as an area now sitting to the right of the access road to Applecross House, and probably a slightly elevated pair of fields now under trees. Roy Wentworth's Gaelic words and phrases of Wester Ross, 260, says that the element goirtean referred specifically to a small corn-field. Dwelly's Gaelic dictionary gives 1) Little corn-field, 2) Small patch of arable ground, 3) Little field, enclosure, park, 4) Little farm, 5) Croft. In the context of Applecross Estate it could well have been an enclosure or park.
W. J. Watson's notes:
Map name appears in: Estate maps only
Feature Co-ordinates: 57.44084,-5.80039
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