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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BEN CRUACHAN Ben Cruachan
Ben Cruachan
Ben Cruachan
Ben Cruachan
Ben Chruachan
Ben Cruachin
Ben Cruachan
Ben Cruachan
Rev [Reverend] D. McLean Dalmally
H. McColl Inverawe Ho. [House]
Mr White Farmer Bonawe
New Statistical Account
Rev [Reverend] D. McCalman Ardchattan
Tytler's History of the Scotland Vol [Volume] 1.253
Origines Parochiales
Black's Tourists' Guide
100 A large mountain situated in the parish of Ardchattan & on the east side of Loch Etive. It is nearly the highest mountain in Argyllshire, & embraces a great extent of country, its circumference at the base being 20 miles. It terminates in two bold rocky pinnacles the eastern of which is said to be 3689 feet in height. The summit is very rocky & precipitous especially on the north side, the slopes are free of rock, easy of access, & afford excellent pasture for sheep.
COIRE AN T-SNEACHD Coire an Sneachd
Coire an Sneachd
Coire an Sneachd
"Coire an t-Sneachd"
Hugh McColl Inverawe
A McNiven Bonawe
D. McIntyre Ardchattan
G. O. [Gaelic Orthography]
100 A slight depression west of coire chait on the north side of Ben Cruachan
Sig:- [Signification] The Snow Corrie.

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Ben Cruachan
"This is the highest mountain in the county of Argyle. This
said to tower to a height of 3669 feet. Its base describes
a circumference of more than twenty miles." New Statistical account.

"Beinn Chruachan." [note] "Mountain of (the) Conical Tops."
[Note]
an Sneachda - an t-Sneachd - requires - t - with a hyphen before in the gen [genitive] & dat [dative] sing [singular]

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