[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
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The Gough Map of Great Britain

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Full record: Badenoch

County Inverness-shire
Transcript
Icon description spired church
Icons
  • church
Description entirely faded
Appearances
  • faded
Etymology G bĂ ithte, 'submerged'+ n-ach, locative suffixes; 'submerged land'
Translation
Earlier editors ...nagh. Badenoch is shown on Speed’s map of Scotland of 1610 and on Mercator’s British Isles of 1564. It may refer, as Gough suggests, t. Ruthven or Kingussie, but I think it refers t. the castle of the Comyns at Loch am Eilein (Parsons).
Early Maps
Overwritten
Attested spelling Badenaghe 1290