OS1/28/47/101

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BEACON [Loch Toscaig] Beacon [Loch Toscaig] Rev. Kenneth Macdonald F.C. [Free Church] Manse Applecross Mr Duncan Macnair Applecross 116 This name is applied to an object situated outside the mouth of Loch Toscaig and consists of an iron rod firmly fixed on a sunken rock having a large head painted white to warn mariners
MEALL LOCH AIRIDH ALASDAIR Meall Loch Airidh Alasdair Rev. Kenneth Macdonald F.C. [Free Church] Manse Applecross Mr Duncan Macnair Applecross 116 This name signifying the "Hill of the Lake of Alexander's Shieling" is applied to a prominent and rocky Eminence situated between Meall nam h-Uamha and Meall nam Feadan Same proprietor as above
ROINN NA H-AIRDE MOIRE Roinn na h-Airde Moire Rev. Kenneth Macdonald F.C. [Free Church] Manse Applecross
Mr Duncan Macnair Applecross
116 This name signifying the "Promontory of the large height" is applied to an Eminence and promontory forming a part of of the west side of Loch Toscaig. it is partially wooded and is on the property of the Right Hon. Lord Middleton
LOCH AIRIDH ALASDAIR Loch Airidh Alasdair Rev. Kenneth Macdonald F.C. [Free Church] Manse Applecross Mr Duncan Macnair Applecross 116 This name signifying the "Lake of Alexander's Shieling" is applied to a crooked shaped lake adjacent to the northern Extremity of "Meall Loch Airidh Alasdair" Same proprietor as above

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County of Ross -- Six Inch Sheet 116 -- page101

Transcriber's notes

Meall Loch Airidh Alasdair is wrongly translated by the surveyor as the "Hill of the Lake of Alexander's Shieling" - it should be "Alasdair's Sheiling" Similarly Loch Airidh Alasdair should be the "Loch of Alasdair's Shieling"

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