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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CREAG DHUBH Ceag Dubh
Creag Dubh
Creag Dubh
Charles Cook Dipping
William Shaw East Bennan
John McKenzie Auchenhew
259.04 A low rocky hill running nearly north and south, and abuting from the Bennan Head which runs nearly east & west. This name equally applies to the houses at the western base of the hill
CHAPEL (Site of) [East Bennan] Site of Burying Ground Charles Cook Dipping
William Shaw East Bennan
John McKenzie Auchenhew
259.04 William Shaw of East Bennan says that the walls of a chapel was here in his grandfather's time, and burials took place in it even in his own day, Peter Currie an old man in Shiskin recollects burials taking place at it. It is called "Caibeal Mhuineal"and seems well known among all the old people as a "Burial ground," but not a vestiage now exist to mark the place as such.
PORT A' GHILLE GHLAIS Port a Gille-glas Charles Cook Dipping
William Shaw East Bennan
John McKenzie Auchenhew
259.04 A rough rocky port immediately under the Bennan Head

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Ph. [Parish] of Kilmory

"Creag Dhubh" Black Rock.

JB LtR.E [John Bayly Lt Col Lieutenant Colonel]

Port a' Ghille Ghlaise

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