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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ACHATRIACHATAN Achatriochatan
Achatriochatan
Achatriochatan
Auchiutriaten
Achatriachatan
Mr Donald McMillan
Mr Duncan Buchanan
Mr John Cameron
Tales of my Grandfather (Scott)
Rev. Dr. [Reverend Doctor] Stewart, Nether Lochaber, By Oban 1896.
031 A small farmsteading situated about the centre of Glen Coe. The property of Mrs Campbell, Monzie Derivation Not Known.
GLEN COE Glen Coe
Glen Coe
Glen Coe
Glen Coe
Mr A Cameron, Carnach
Mr D McMillan, Carnach
Mr John Cameron, Ballachulish
New Statistical Acount
031; 045 A long and somewhat narrow glen extending from Buachaille Etive Mor, (at head of Glen Etive) westward to Loch Leven at Invercoe. The hills on either side are steep and rugged, espiecally [especially] about the top and Centre, where is situated "Aonach Dubh" a very bold feature, in front of which is a huge cliff containing a remarkable crevice of a door like shape, and called "Ossian's Cave", Opposite is Aonach Eagach, formed of a range of fantastic and jagged peaks, thus forming the wildest, and narrowest, part of this well known glen. It contains two small lakes, Lochan na Fola, and Loch Triochatan, Also the "River Coe". The massacre of the Clan McDonald, took place (in 1692), about the western extremity of the glen.

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[Page] 30
Sheet 31 Argyllshire

Glen Coe, note: "on [Sheets] 31 & 45"

"Before the end of January 1692 a party
of the Earl of Argyle's regiment, commanded
by Captn. [Captain] Campbell of Glenlyon, approached
Glencoe, where they had remained for
14 or 15 days, when he received orders from
his commanding Officer Major Duncanson
directing him that all the MacDonalds
under 70 years of age were to be cut off
& that the Government was not to be troubled
with Prisoners. About 4 o'clock in the morning of
13th February, the scene of blood began. A
party, commanded by one of the Lindsays [Continued Page 31]

Transcriber's notes

ACHATRIACHATAN was the spelling designated by Rev D Stewart in 1896, at which time he altered the Name Book and the Index. Sheet 31 still has the spelling Achatriochatan, which comes from Loch Triochatan [Sheet 45]. I couldn't find a 25 inch map for that area. On the 6 inch map Xxxi.se "Surveyed in 1870 Revised in 1897", it is spelt Achtriochtan and the Loch the same, and this is the current spelling for both. I have left as is.

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