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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LOCH TULLA Loch Tulla
Loch Tulla
Loch Tolath
Loch Tulla
"Loch Tulaich"
"Loch Thula" or "Thulach"
"Loch Tuile"
Mr. P. Robertson Forest Lodge
Rd. [Reverend] Mr. McLean F.C. M. [Free Church Minister]
R. Scott Dalmally
Origs. Parols. [Origines Parochiales]
Hillock Loch
Loch of (the) Hillock
Loch of (the) flood
077 A beautiful sheet of water: fed by several good mountain streams, situate at the head of Glenorchy. Its average breadth is about ½ mile & about 2 miles long. Signification. Unknown. The Revd. [Reverend] Mr. McLean conjectures the meaning to be. The Loch that is subjected to be easily flooded.
DOIRE DARACH Doire Darach


Doiridarroch
Mr. P. Robertson Forest Lodge
Rd. [Reverend] Mr McLean F.C. M. [Free Church Minister]
R. Scott Dalmally
New Stat Ac/ [Statistical Account]
.
077 Applicable to a remnant of the old "Caledonian Forest" standing on the south side of "Loch Tulla" & opposite "Forest House". Sig [Signification] Oak Thicket
Some scanty remains of the once mighty forests are still to be seen in different localities in the Parish, "Doire Darach" being one New Stat Ac/ [Statistical Account]

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Ph. [Parish] Glenorchy & Inishail -- Argyllshire

[Note to last three modes of spelling Loch Tulla:]
One of these might be accepted. viz: "Tulaich," "Thula," or "Tuile," but the parties interested recognise it only by the
spelling given as above. [Initialled] R.H.

[Note to Doire Darach:]
"Doire Dharach." pl. [plural] but the singular form may with propriety be used.
[Initialled] R.H.

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