OS1/2/23/8

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ABBOT'S ISLE Abbots Isle
Abbots Isle
Abbots Isle
Elinanabb or Abbot's Isle
Elinanabb (The Abbot's Isle)
"Eilean Aba"
Mr Sinclair Culnadalloch
Mr McDougall Culnadalloch
Mr Bolton Culnadalloch
New Stat [Statistical] Account
Origines Parochiales
"Abbot's Isle"
087 Applies to an Island situated a Short distance West of Highwood. At one time there apparently has been buildings on it as at one place there are a great number of Stones but the formation cannot be traced.
LINNE NA CRAIGE Linne na Creag
Linne na Creag
Linne na Creag
Stonefield Bay
"Linne na Craige."
Mr Campbell Achnacloich
Mr Sinclair Achnacloich
Mr Sinclair Culnadalloch
New Stat [Statistical] Account 516
(The Craig Pool)
087 Applies to a Bay formed by Rudha na Carn Beg and Eillan Treachd.

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87.11 -- Argyllshire

[Note to Abbot's Isle:]
"The island of Elinanabb lying adjacent to the
lands of Auchnacloich, is said to have been the
residence of the Abbots of Inchaffray in troublesome times"
Origines Parochiales

[Note to Linne na Craige:]
"In the bay of Stonefield, snugly sheltered, is situated the
Abbots' Isle, robed in its mantle of green & exhibiting still a
few aged sycamores, the relicts of the years that are past"
New Stat. [Statistical] Account.

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