Placename
Gaelic name: Boradal
Name in Original Source: Boradal
English meaning: Fort-dale
Placename feature: Settlement
Notes: After the Applecross Estate was 'improved' in the early 19th century, this area became the setting for a model farm and then became known as Applecross Mains, or Applecross Home Farm. <br /><br /><br /><br />Kenneth Macrae, F.S.A.S., wrote: Bounadell, Barradaill, now Boradail. This is a Norse name derived from the Dun or Fort which stood here in ancient times. A considerable portion of this Dun was still standing until 1800 when the Laird evicted the tenants of Boradail to make an extensive Home Farm for himself. The material of the Dun was then utilised in making park walls, but the site is still traceable. This Dun must have been the headquarters of the Chief during the turbulent period 800 to 1200, here Gilleandreis would have his home and here, no doubt, Fearchair Mac-an-t-Sagart was born. Here too stood An Tigh Ban, The White House, the residence of the first MacKenzies to own Applecross. This house was demolished along with the Dun and now Boradail is but the steading of the Home Farm.<br /><br /><br /><br />There is also (PN1971.016B) a suggestion that the name may also have been Boraghal
W. J. Watson's notes: 204: Applecross Mains - Of old Borrodale, from N. Borgr, a burg or stronghold, and dalr, a dale; 'Fort-dale'; Gaelic curiously accents the second syllable, which suggests that some third element, e.g. á, river, has to be reckoned with. Reverend John MacQueen writing in the Old Statistical Account, Volume XIV, 381: From the Danish are derived all those names which have burgh in the compound, as Burghdale. It is observable, that in all places of this designation, there hath anciently been a Danish Dun ...
Map name appears in: Various sources
Feature Co-ordinates: 57.4319,-5.8137
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