OS1/17/16/119

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
POLL NA DROCHAIDE Poll-na Drochaid (The Bridge Pool) Revd. [Reverend] Alexander Campbell
Allan McDonald
Samuel Campbell
115 A Pool in the River Spey so called from its nearness to a Bridge (foot Bridge)
POLL NAM MANACH Poll nam Manach (The Monks or Friar's Pool) [Initialed] J.A. Revd. [Reverend] Alexander Campbell
Allan McDonald
Samuel Campbell
115 A Pool in the River Spey where a "Monk" or "Friar" is supposed to have drowned
SHIRRABEG Shirrabeg Revd. [Reverend] Alexander Campbell
Allan McDonald
Samuel Campbell
115 A small farm steading the Property of E. Bailley Esqr.

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[Page] 119
Co. [County] of Inverness Parish of Laggan

[Pencil note below the name "POLL NA DROCHAIDE" in the List of Names column]
Poll na Drochaide

[Pencil notes pertaining to the circled name "Poll-na Drochaid" in the Various modes of Spelling column]
nom. [nominative] Drochaid
genitive Drochaide

[Pencil note below the name "POLL NAM MANACH" in the List of Names column]
Poll a' Mhanaich

[Pencil notes pertaining to the circled name "Poll nam Manach" in the Various modes of Spelling column]
feminine article
masculine noun
An article should agree with its
noun in gender number & case

[Pencil notes pertaining to the circled name "Shirrabeg" in the Various modes of Spelling column]
Sherrobeg
Anglicised form
as usually written by the
local authorities require
New Statistical Acct. [Account]

[Signed] Robert Kane Sapr. R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]

  Transcribers who have contributed to this page.

Art Leitch