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  • Collection: Loch Assynt

Field of the moss sheiling Originally translated as "Kenneth's shieling" but a correction was received. Contributor - your return email address was incorrectly spelled, and we are unable to acknowledge your assistance Could you contact us again?…

Field of the rough isthmus (river joining two lochs)

Rowan Burn

The sheiling ground
Believed spelling error - the final M is incorrect

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Speckled point

Place of the Sloe

Rough mountain

Smooth mountain

The field of the Big Men

Hill of the narrow valley

Hillock of the red dog

Hillock of the grove of the rosary beads
(Note other place names in the area refer to monks, eg Lochan Mhanaich)

The hillock of the muddy place of the pigs

Copse of the Birches

The ridge of the Loch of the monk

Between the two Calda burns

Assynt Island - but note mixed Gaelic and English - expected to be Eilean Asainte or Assynt Island

Black Island

Willow Glen
One translation may mean "dirty", but the more likely meaning is "willow"

Heights of the beak of the bird

Heights of the beak of the bird
Note this name also occurs again nearby

Blue hillock

Torcuil's Meadow

Loch of the narrow valley
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