still could be a made up name. Or maybe Dan R. MacDonald made the tune and nobody knows it; he was in Scotland so he did use some Scottish place names in tune titles. I don't know of an Arrochar in Nova Scotia. Some names aren't on the maps anymore though.
And some names are local names, which are not and never were used as
map references. Remember "Gillis Mountain" from an early Rankin Family
recording? It references the Mountain (hill)-side where the Gillis
Family used to live. The fact that the Gillis Family hadn't been
living there in 3 or 4 generations doesn't mean anything. The local
reference to it is STILL Gillis Mountain, and forevermore it will be
referred to as that!
That type of thing happens in remote parts of North Carolina all the time.. A certain locality has a name, but no one knows why it's called that, except for the very oldest of the old timers..
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