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alan mair

alan mair

Re: google failed me!!! (Mellenish/Mellinish)

May 25, 2006, 10:26 p.m. (Message 45378, in reply to message 45377)

. I found an entry on this page:
> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maryc/bruce01.htm for a  Marion MELLINISH.
> So, one can induct that there may in fact be a place name Mellinish.
>
> However, correspondence with Undiscovered Scotland got this response:
>
> "We've got a searchable Ordnance Survey 1:50K digital map of the whole of
> Scotland, and it doesn't include either name or any close variant we
> tried."

I think the answer may be in the Gaelic and I don't have much. It is even
more difficult to spell but I suspect Mellinish is Meall an .........? Meall
an t - Seallaidh near Lochearnhead may sound familiar. There is a Meall an
t - Sithe up in the North of Scotland which might be what you are looking
for. Ben Nevis has the alternative name of Meall an t - Suidhe but how to
pronounce it? Have we got a better Gaelic speaker than me on the list? A
hill climber might help but they have probably got better things to do at
this time of the year!!

Alan

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