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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LOCH SElL Loch Seil
Loch Seil
Loch Seil
New Stat [Statistical] Account
Mr Gow Kilninver
Mr Robertson Kilninver
110 "Loch Seil, about a mile east of the Sound of Seil and only a few feet above its level is nearly two miles in circumference and its average depth is ten fathoms. From it's proximity to the sea and the low & marly nature of the intervening ground it appears to have been at one time an arm of the sea." New Stat: [Statistical] Account.
MEALL AILEIN Meall Ailean
Meall Ailean
"Meall Ailein"
Mr Livingstone Barochreal
Mr McFarlane Barnacarry
GO [Gaelic Orthography]
110 A prominent round hill nearly ½ a mile N.E. [North East] of Loch Seil.
Sig: [Signification] Allan's Knoll.
LOCH CHÀRN Loch a' Chuirn
Loch a' Chuirn
"Loch Chàrn"
Mrs Cameron Kilninver
Mr. Livingstone
GO [Gaelic Orthography]
110 A small loch in the moor to the S.E. [South East] of the above hill.
Sig: [Signification] 'Loch of (the) Cairns' or heaps. NB. There are no cairns, or even stones, in it's neighbourhood, & how it got the name is unknown.

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