The Lairig Ghru is one of the mountain passes through the Cairngorms of Scotland. from Braemar in the South to Aviemore in the North.

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As a place-name Lairig Ghru remains an enigma. Lairig means hill pass, and map-makers of the nineteenth century solved the problem to their own satisfaction by substituting for Ghru the word Ghruamach, for which they had apparently not the slightest authority. Ghruamach means forbidding or surly, and forbidding the Lairig often is in wild weather ... But authorities on place-names reject these suggestions, and are obliged to leave the name Ghru a mystery, although it seems to contain the same root as the Allt Dhru burn which drains it to the north. MacBain a distinguished philologist, writes that the name is "probably the Pass of Druie river, from root dru, flow, as in Gaulish Druentia"

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Location: Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. UK.
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