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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SAMADALAN [1895] Samh nan Dàlaichean
Samh nan Dàlaichean
Mr McMaster
Rev [Reverend] John McLean
076 Applies to a district at one time thickly populated but at present in Ruins with two or three Exceptions, the High W. [Water] Mark is the Bdy [Boundary] on the North. "Airor Burn"on the West and "Allt Niag-àrd" on the East. the name Signifies the "Stinking Dales" from the fact of large quantities of Wreckage being Washed ashore and allowed to rot, on the property of James Baird Esq. Cambus Doon, Ayrshire
SAMADALAN ISLAND [1895] Eilean Samh nan Dàlaichean
Eilean Samh nan Dàlaichean
Mr McMaster
Rev [Reverend] John McLean
076 Applies to an Island situated in the "Sound of Sleat" near the shore adjacent to the district from which it derives its name. the name Signifies the, "Island of the Stinking Dales."

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Altered by authority of Mr MacBain, Raining's School, Inverness. See Remark in Index. 4.2.95. [Written under Samadalan List of Names Entry]
Altered by authority of Mr MacBain, Raining's School, Inverness. See Remark in Index. 4.2.95. [Written under Samadalan Island List of Names Entry]

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