Image: The River Eachaig, from a footbridge - geograph.org.uk - 925493

Description: The River Eachaig, from a footbridge In order to gain access to Benmore Botanic Garden from the Garden's entrance and ticket office, visitors cross this river by means of a footbridge; this photo, looking upstream, was taken from that bridge. The river name, "Eachaig", is explained in "The Celtic Placenames of Scotland" (by W.J.Watson, 1926) as meaning "horsie": it is the Gaelic "each" (meaning "horse"), combined with a diminutive suffix "-a(i)g". The river flows from Loch Eck. The similarity of "Eck" to "Eachaig" is no accident; their names have a common root: Loch Eck is the "Horse Loch", again from the Gaelic "each".
Title: The River Eachaig, from a footbridge - geograph.org.uk - 925493
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