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Collection: Loch Assynt
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Ardvreck
Speckled point
Beinn Gharbh
Rough mountain
Quinag
Milking pail
Cuineag
Eadar a’ Chalder
Between the two Calda burns
Blar nam Fear Móra
The field of the Big Men
Lochan Mhanaich
The loch of the monk
Druim Lochan a Mhanaich
The ridge of the Loch of the monk
Beinn Reidh
Smooth mountain
Cnoc a Ghlinnean
Hill of the narrow valley
Loch a' Ghlinnean
Loch of the narrow valley
Loch Mhic Leòid
MacLeod's Loch
Cnoc Poll nam Muc
The hillock of the muddy place of the pigs
Poll Tigh Charraigean
Hollow of the house of the knot of the wood
Innis Thorcaill
Torcuil's Meadow
Loch Innis Thorcaill
The loch of Torcuil's Meadow
Loch Odhar (another one)
Dun coloured loch
Gorm Chnoc
Blue hillock
Gleannan Salach
Willow Glen
One translation may mean "dirty", but the more likely meaning is "willow"
Gob Ard (repeated name)
Heights of the beak of the bird
Gob Ard (repeated name)
Heights of the beak of the bird
Note this name also occurs again nearby
An Ruigheam (sic)
The sheiling ground
Believed spelling error - the final M is incorrect
Loch an Ruighein
Loch of the sheiling ground
Loch an t-Sabhail
Loch of the Barn
Cnoc Bad na Conaire
Hillock of the grove of the rosary beads
(Note other place names in the area refer to monks, eg Lochan Mhanaich)
Ruigh Còinich
Kenneth's Sheiling
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