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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Bad Ochanaich Bad Ochanaich
Bad Ochanaich
Bad Ochanaich
Duncan McIntyre, Shepherd
James Buchanan Shepherd
Revd. Dr. [Reverend Doctor] McFarlane
014.06 A narrow and long topped hill on the west side of which flows the "Burn of Achlais." The height of "Bad Ochainaich" is not considerable, but it is a prominent object, & for arrangement of size of letters &c. may be said to rank with "Leachd na cloiche", though it is somewhat higher. None of the Highlanders in the locality know the meaning of this name, which takes the sound of "Badochenay", & is supposed by the Revd. Dr. [Reverend Doctor] McFarlane to signify The tuft of lamentation, of which there are a number of names through Scotland, probably from the fact of a battle being fought there. A ridge joining or connected with "Bad Ochainaich" extends eastwards from this hill & is called "Druim Meadonach" signifying The mid ridge or intermediate ridge - between "Bad Ochainaich" & Leachd na Cloiche" understood.

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Co. [County] Stirling -- Buchanan Parish

[Notes:]
whether the word be understood
or not the universal rule of
Leathan ri Leathan, &c.
ought to be observed when
the word is spelled as a
Gaelic word.

Bad. (G. [Gaelic]), a Tuft, a cluster. &c
Ochanaich, (G. [Gaelic]) Sighing or sobbing.
"Ochain," Lamentation

[Very faint note:]
Lord Black writing on this name gives
an instance of the [authority] of the corrupted
[name] in a hill at his native
place (Dunbar) called " Nochenare" where 200
wives [while ---- there] witnessed the wreck of
the boats containing their husbands &c.
C.H.

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The pencilled note is almost too faint to read, especially the second last line, transcription is in places a best guess.

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