Blair Collection > Place names in Strathbogie, with notes historical, antiquarian and descriptive

138 Place Names in Strathbogie,
from the Gaelic triopall, which literally is a
'bunch,or cluster,or gathering,' and here evidently
means ' the burn of the gathering or meeting.'
Cf. Montriple (Fife) and Glentriploch (Galloway).
From the north comes the burn of Findouran, or
Ardlouie, more commonly Alluie. I have not
found any old reference to Findouran, and
as we have elsewhere 'dorane,' ' derran,' and
' durane,' as various forms of the same place name,
it is difficult to conjecture what the original
may have been. Feith-aii-dobJu'ain {bh and th
m.ute), the 'marsh of the otter,' may be the
meaning.
Bodiemulach, on the opposite side of the
glen, means the ' clump, or place of the ridge or
summit ' — from bad, ' a clump,' and inullach, a
' ridge.' Ardluie and Craigluie, names of places
on this burn, mean the ' height,' and ' craig, of
the Luie (laogh), that is the ' the burn of the
calves.' The Gaelic laogJi means the 'calf of
a cow or deer, either of which may have given
rise to the name here, and in numerous in-
stances in which similar names occur in secluded
Highland glens. There are two burns of the
same name, the East and West Lewie or Luie,
near the southern boundary of the Upper
Cabrach. Two burns from the south-west unite
and join the main stream at Burntreble. The
more southerly is the Garmach Burn (garbh-
inagh), probably meaning the ' rough field burn/