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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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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. |
Continued entries/extra info
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[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.
Transcribers who have contributed to this page.
Alison James- Moderator, DANIALSAN
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