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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
COIRE CULACH Coire Culach
Coire Culach
Peter Rankine Creagdhu
Archibald McGlashan Glencroe
134 A rocky corrie in the side of Beinn Donich
Sign [Signification]: Not Known
BEN ARTHUR Ben Arthur

Ben Arthur
Ben Arthur
Peter Rankine Creagdhu
Archibald McGlashan Glencroe
John Ferguson Arrochar
Robert Campbell Arrochar
134 A well known name applied to a mountain at mouth of Glen Croe the south and western slopes covered with large masses of broken rock. The east formed by huge cliffs the higher and most towering called the Cobbler, from its somewhat resembling (when viewed from certain points) a shoemaker sitting at work. a little South east of it is an immense detached peak named Arthur's Seat. (sheet 135)
"A lofty threatening mountain-crag called Ben Arthur or the Cobbler. This terrific rock forms the bare summit of a huge mountain and its nodding top so far overhangs the base as to assume the appearance of a cobbler sitting at work; from whence the country call it an greasaiche crom the crooked shoemaker"
Fullarton's Gazetteer
THE COBBLER The Cobbler



The Cobbler
Peter Rankine Creagdhu
Archibald McGlashan Glencroe
John Ferguson Arrochar
Robert Campbell Arrochar
Donald McDonald Arrochar
134 A well known name applied to a mountain at mouth of Glen Croe the south and western slopes covered with large masses of broken rock. The east formed by huge cliffs the higher and most towering called the Cobbler from its somewhat resembling (when viewed from certain points) a shoemaker sitting at work. a little South east of it is an immense detached peak named Arthur's Seat. (sheet 135)
"A lofty threatening mountain-crag called Ben Arthur or the Cobbler. This terrific rock forms the bare summit of a huge mountain and its nodding top so far overhangs the base as to assume the appearance of a cobbler sitting at work; from whence the country call it an greasaiche crom the crooked shoemaker"
Fullarton's Gazetteer

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Co. [County] Argyll


[Note to The Cobbler:]
See Sheet 135

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