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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
TOBAR NA GOIL Tobar na Goil
Tobar na Goil
Tobar na Goil
Rev. [Reverend] A. Campbell, F. [Free] Church Manse
Rev. [Reverend] J. Fraser, Manse, Petty
Mr. T. Fraser, Burnside Cottage by Ardersier
005 A very fine Spring situated at Tornagrain. The Statistical Account in describing this Spring saye: "At Tornagrain there is a tobar na goil, or the boiling fountain, where on a flat, there are various intermittent spouts, and with every ejection of the water, the purest sand rises and spreads round the orifice from which the water is thrown till the weight of the sand changes the orifice, and this sand is distributed in the same process anew".
CLACH AN TUILL Clach an Tuill
Clach an Tuill
Clach an Tuill
Revd. [Reverend] A. Campbell
Mr. Thomas Fraser
Rev [Reverend] J. Fraser
005 A large boulder, with a hole cut in the top about as large as a teacup evidently an old cup or boundary Stone, numbers of which are still to be found on the old Boundaries especially of Royalty. The Statistical Account says, "On the old Nairn road, at the boundary line between Petyn and Bracholy is clach-an-tuil, or holed stone, the use of which is unknown, but the water collected in it was imagined to cure wens

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