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 Cupar