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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
AM PRIOSAN Am Prìosan Mr Donald Walker Daliburgh S [South] Uist
A.A. Carmichail Esq
A. Morrison
057 This name is applied to the remains of an ancient prison which was built on a small high water rock in the SW [South West] extremity of Loch Boisdale little is known of the history of this antiquity only that it is traditionally known as a place of Confinement
its Signification is the "prison".
EILEANAN An A' PHRIOSAIN Eilean an a' Phrìosain Mr Donald Walker
Mr McAulay
A.A. Carmichail Esq
A. Morrison.
057 This name is applied to a number of Small Islands Situate in the S.W. [South West] Extremity of Loch Boisdale their Signification is the "Islands of the prison".
EILEAN NAN RÀMH Eilean nan Ràmh Mr Donald Walker
Mr McAulay
A.A. Carmichal Esq
A. Morrison
057 This name is applied to a small Island Situate to West of the hars Channel which joins Bagh Cill Earion with the outer portion of Loch Boisdale its Signification is the "sad Island".

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County of Inverness
Parish of South Uist

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