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[2] Torfnes ‘Tarbatness’: The ON name Torfnes, lit. ‘Peat Headland’, must represent a false etymology of the Gaelic tairbeart ‘isthmus’, common in place-names. There is—and presumably was—no peat at Tarbatness (Munch 1852-63, I, ii, 856, n. 1).