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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
TARANSAY Taransay
Taransay
Taransay



Tarinsay
Tarrensay
Taransa
Kenneth McDonald, Factor Scarasta, Harris
Mr. McDonald, Farmer Taransay
John McKinnon, Cotter Taransay
Admiralty Chart
Black's Map
Johnston's Map
Val. [Valuation] Roll 1868-9
New Statistical Account
Ainslie's old Map 1789
012 This name is applied to a slack situate 2 Miles West from Luskentyre in South Harris. Its great length is 4½ miles & breadth 2½ Miles. It is covered with good pasture for Cattle and sheep, the south end being superior to the north end. It is populated and there are 70 persons including men women & children living on it, but is farmed by one individual the others being merely cotters who make their living principly by fishing lobsters &c. There houses are of a most miserable discription. Some of them being half buried under the ground.
It belongs to the parish of Harris & is the property of the Earl of Dunmore.

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Ph. [Parish] of Harris - Co. [County] of Inverness

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