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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BILASCLEITEAR Bilascleiter
Bilascleitear
Bilascleitear
John Morrison
John McKay
Allan Ross
006 [Situation] In the N.E. [North East] section of the plan, 70 chains N.N.W. [North North West] of Cellar Head.
A small group of huts, on an Elevated patch of moorland, adjacent to and west of Dun Bhiliscleiter. They are the same size and construction as those of any other part of the Lewis, and are not occupied except during the Summer Season; at which time they are used as shealings and Cow houses.
BILASCLEITER [1896] Col. [Colonel] J. Farquharson C.B. [Companion of the Order of the Bath] R.E. [Royal Engineers] Director General Ord. [Ordnance] Survey.
Mr. J. Mathieson O.S. [Ordnance Survey] Edinburgh 1896.
FEADAN DÚBH Fedan Dúbh
Fedan Dúbh
Fedan Dúbh
John Morrison
John McKay
Allan Ross
006 [Situation] Flows north through the Centre of the plan and falls into Allt an t Sulaire 110 chains N.W. [North West] of Cellar Head.
A stream of considerable size which flows from near the base of Druim Ghrinnavall, passes by Tom Mor Blar na Fola, to Tom Fheadagro, at which place it receives the name "Allt an Sulaire".

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