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AMHUINN GHÀBHSUNN O THUATH Amhuinn Ghàbhsunn O'Thuath
Amhuinn Ghàbhsunn O'Thuath
John Morrison
John McKay
Allan Ross
002 [Situation] Flows west from the southern side of the plan and falles into the sea, 30 chains N.N.W. [North North West] of North Galson village.
A river which flows out of Loch Sgeireach, and after a course of about five miles falls into the Sea at Gabhsunn O Tuath. It receives a number of tributaries, is not very rapid but contains a good quantity of water.
NORTH GALSON Col. [Colonel] J. Farquharson C.B. R.E. [Royal Engineers] Director General Ord. [Ordnance] Survey
Mr J Mathieson O.S. [Ordnance Survey] Edinburgh 1896
002
GÀBHSUNN O' THUATH Gàbhsunn O' Thuath or North Galson
Gàbhsunn O' Thuath or North Galson
Gàbhsunn O' Thuath or North Galson
John Morrison
John McKay
Allan Ross
002 [On the Stornoway and Ness Road in the S.W. [South West] of the plan, 3 miles S.W. [South West] by W [West] of Dail O Dhais village.
A small village of huts near the Sea Shore. They are built of stone and earth and thatched with straw. It is intersected by the Stornoway to Ness road and two other bye ones. It contains two slated houses, has a large tract of good arable, and a considerable portion of moorland attached to it.
NORTH GALSON RIVER Col. [Colonel] J. Farquharson C.B. R.E. [Royal Engineers] Director Genl. [General] Ord. [Ordnance] Survey
Mr J Mathieson O.S. [Ordnance Survey] Edinburgh
002

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