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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LOCH NAM FEAR Loch nam Fear Capt [Captain] Gunn Braehour
D. Gunn Dalnaha
A. Mackay Cnoc-glas
026 A small lake north east of Loch a Mhuilinn. It is said that it received the name from the fact, that two or three men of the name of Calder were killed at this Loch, by a man of the name of Bain who lived some where about Dalawillan, to which place he brought the bodies and buried them in an old byre which stood about the centre of the graveyard there. This is supposed to have taken place some time during the 15th century.
ALLT LOCH NAM FEAR Allt Loch nam Fear Capt [Captain] Gunn Braehour
D. Gunn Dalnaha
A. Mackay Cnoc-glas
026 A small stream which issues from the lake of that name and discharges itself into Loch a Mhuilinn.

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County of Caithness -- Parish of Hallkirk

Loch nam Fear [note] Lake of the men
Allt Loch nam Fear [note] Stream of the men Lake

[Signed] George Rose
C.A [Civilian Assistant]

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