Loading
  • 21 Aug, 2019

  • By, Wikipedia

Morefield

Morefield (A' Mhór-choille in Gaelic) is a small hamlet, lying on the northern shore of Loch Broom, 2 miles to the north of Ullapool and south of Rhue in Ross and Cromarty, and is in the Scottish council area of Highland Scotland.

In some early documents it is written as Morchyle.

Etymology

The English name is a corruption of the Gaelic meaning "the big wood".

References

  1. ^ Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Morefield". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  2. ^ See, for example, the surveyor Peter May's 1755 map of the Barony of Coigach