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Pit- placenames
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Porin
NH 320 550
Ross & Cromarty

Derivation:

from the Gaelic "Baile Phuir", the place of the pasture (Watson, WJ 1926)

Earlier forms:

Pitfour


Notes:

see also Pitfour, Aberdeenshire, Pitfour, Banffshire, Pitfour, Perthshire, Pitfour, Ross & Cromarty, Pitfour, Sutherland, Pitfirrane, Fife, and Pitfure, Sutherland,

References:

Watson, WJ 1926 - The History of the Celtic Place-names of Scotland
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© Andy Sweet 2004