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Ordnance Survey - Inverness county, OS Name Books - Inverness county (Mainland) - Volume 54 - Parishes of Laggan and Kingussie and Insh, OS1/17/54

Continued entries/extra info

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Inverness Shire -- Parish of Kingussie


Notes Phoineas is a declinable noun as Taillear - Genitive Sing. [Singular]. Tailleir
Taileasg - Genitive Sing. [Sigular] Taileisg
ministear - Genitive Sing. [Singular] ministeir is written across the page beneath the entry for Phoines.

Phoineis is written beneath Allt Phoines in the List of Names column.

The following is written across the bottom of the page.

"Glen Fernisdale applies to a narrow Glen which may be said to extend from near Etteridge to about a mile E. [East] of Phoineas Shooting Lodge"
"Glen Fresion House is Seen on a ridge on the sight of a distance of six miles from Newtonmore; we reach Etteridge Bridge from which the old military road left Glentruim, and proceeded to Ruthven Barracks, through Glen Fernisdale along a gravel terrace; overhung with beautiful birch wood affording many indications of the former abodes of brave men who little anticipated that their fires would be put out by no more formidable foe than peacable Sheep" extract from Speyside Guide.

Ordnance Survey - Inverness county, OS Name Books - Inverness county (Mainland) - Volume 54 - Parishes of Laggan and Kingussie and Insh, OS1/17/54

This volume contains information on place names found in the parishes of Laggan, and Kingussie and Insh.

Ordnance Survey - Inverness county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Inverness, which is in the north of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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