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## Featurt airticle

The village o **Findhorn** is fund on the north-east shore o the Findhorn bay an mouth o the Findhorn river, 30 mile east frae Innerness.

Watson (1926) kens the name is frae *Fionn Èire*, meanin *white Ireland* an it "doubtless refers tae the white sands o the estuary". The dative *Èireann* gied rise tae the uiss o the Inglis *erne* in ither local names sic as Invererne, Cullerne an Earnhill.

Its it mair likely that the name is frae the Pictish spoken in the area. The Pict-Scot union o 843 brought in Gaelic, Maxwell (1896) kens the *Fin* is frae the Pictish *Pit*, as in *Pitlochery*. The *orn* is simply 'river', frae the Scots Gaelic *abhainn*, an Auld Welsh *afon*. The Gaelic influence wis soon cowped by the sons o Malcolm Canmore who brocht in an ancestor o moderen Scots tung frae the Northumbrian bylied. Ken the lack o places stairtin wi *Fin-* an *Pit-* in the Gaelic speakin regions o the wast coast.

Fowk hae bed aroond Findhorn frae mair nor three thousan year. In 1986 biggin work kythed a clay burial urn containin the remains o a quine o twenty five year an her bairn.

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