Quote Originally Posted by figheadair View Post
And then those places that have been completely renamed and now have no resemblance to the original Gaelic: Newtonmore and Dingwall being two obvious examples.
Peter, I think Dingwall is the English derivation of the Scandinavian 'thingwald' and not from the Gaelic. It means 'place of the justice' or something similar, and is found in various forms all over Northern Europe. As for Newtonmore, I don't think there was even a village there before the early 19C, so which came first the English or the Gaelic?