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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MONACH Murnag
Muirneag
Muirneag
Mournag
Mournag
Mournag
Monach
Norman Matheson
John McKay
Donald Murray
? McStamper
? Cameron
? Ritchie
John Morrison
George McLeod
John McKenzie
010 A very large and prominent mossy hill, on which three trigl. stations. It is the highest hill, and forms the most conspicuous feature in the northernest district of the Lewis. The boundary between Barvas & Stornoway passes over it. It is occasionally [?] to [?]
MUIRNAG [1896] This appears to have been added by Col. J. Farquharson C.B.R.E. Director General Ord. Survey. and Mr J Mathieson O.S. Edinburgh.
1896.
010 Tradition says that there was a chief of the name of Matheson killed on its top, from which circumstance it is supposed to have derived its name

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Parish of Stornoway

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Looks like this should only be one entry. It appears to have been much amended and added to and it is hard to know where one ends and the other starts. Was someone having a laugh with some of the names?

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Kate51- Moderator, Donald Macdonald

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