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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BINNEIN MÒR Binnean Mòr
Binnean Mòr
Binnean Mòr
Binnein Mòr
Mr. Gillies
Mr McLaughlan Kirnan
Hugh McCleavin
Great Pinnacle
149 This name applies to a rocky top of considerably rising ground on the farm of Kirnan, it is of an oval shape and appears to have been fortified as fragments of an old wall or volume of stones are to be distinctly seen round the south & south S.W. [South West] end filling up as it were the gaps of the out cropping rock, much resembling the "Hill of Barone" near Rothsay but of less extent. There is no tradition concerning it, further than Mr. McLaughlan believes it to have been used as a watch tower or station in troublesome times. Sig [Signification] Binnean, a pinnacle. Mòr, large
FORT [Binnein Mòr] 149 This name [Binnein Mor] applies to a rocky top of considerably rising ground on the farm of Kirnan, it is of an oval shape and appears to have been fortified as fragments of an old wall or volume of stones are to be distinctly seen round the south & south S.W. [South West] end filling up as it were the gaps of the out cropping rock, much resembling the "Hill of Barone" near Rothsay but of less extent. There is no tradition concerning it, further than Mr. McLaughlan believes it to have been used as a watch tower or station in troublesome times.
LOCHAN NA CORRA Lochan-na-Corra
Lochan-na-Corra
Lochan-na-Corra
Mr. Gillies
Mr. McLaughlan
Mr McClevan
149 A small Lake on the farm of Kirnan The property of J Malcolm Esqr. of Poltalloch. Sig [Signification] Lochan, a small loch Corra, a Stork or Heron
CREAG NA SGEICH Creag-na-Sgeach


Creag na Sgeich
Mr. Gillies
Mr. McLaughlan
Mr. McClevan
149 A rocky hill on the farm of Kirnan, the east side is very bold and precipitous. & signifies Craig of the Hawthorn or Berry

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Creag na Sgeich [note]
Sig [Signification] Skeach, not certain

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