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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
PORT NA RABHAIN Port na Rabhain
Port na Rabhain
Port na Rabhain
Donald McGilp, Teacher, Kilchoman
James Brown, Gamekeeper, Gruinart
Dugald McEachern, Kilnave
186 Applies to a long narrow channel situated at the south side of Nave Island, about 1/4 of a mile west of Na Badagan, & extends about 1/8 of a mile in an easterly direction from Liath Eilean. Sig [Signification] "Port of the seaweed"
SGEIREAN LEATHAN Sgeirean Leathan
Sgeirean Leathan
Sgeirean Leathan
Donald mcGilp, Teacher, Kilchoman
James Brown, Gamekeeper, Gruinart
Dugald McEachern, Kilnave
186 Applies to a quantity of flat rocks in the parish of Kilchoman; about 3/8 of a mile south west of Nave Island & a short distance north of Eilean Beag. Sig [Signification] "Broad rocks".
EILEAN BEAG Eilean Beag
Eilean Beag
Eilean Beag
Donald McGilp, Teacher, Kilchoman
James Brown, Gamekeeper, Gruinart
Dugald McEachern, Kilnave
186 Applies to a number of rocks & patches of rocky R.P. [Rough Pasture] attached at low water; situated in the parish of Kilchoman, about 5/8 of a mile south west of Nave Island & about 1/4 of a mile west of Sgeir nan Sgarbh.
Sig [Signification] "Little Island". The property of Charles Morrison Esq of Islay.

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26 [left corner of header]
Parish of Kilchoman Islay, Argyllshire [in header]

Sheet 186 Plan 5 Trace 2 [Situation for Port na Rabhain]
Sheet 186 Plan 5 Trace 4 [Situation for Sgeirean Leathan]
Sheet 186 Plan 5 Trace 4 [Situation for Eilean Beag]

R. Hawkins S.R.E. [Surveyor? Royal Engineers. Signature at foot of page]

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