OS1/33/27/20

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SUIDH' AN FHIR-BHIG Suidhe an Fhir-bhig Revd. [Reverend] P Clark
Revd. [Reverend] C McKenzie
Mr D Sutherland
067 A small rocky heathy pasture hill situate on the County Boundary 3/4 of a mile north of Creag nam Geàrr Meaning the Seat of the little fellow.
CREAG NAN GEÀRR Creag nan Geàrr Revd. [Reverend] P Clark
Revd. [Reverend] C McKenzie
Mr D Sutherland
067 A heathy pasture hill situate about a mile to the West of Creag Scalibsdeele on the County Boundary It signifies Rock of the Hares
CREAG SCALABSDALE Creag Scalabsdale Revd. [Reverend] P Clark
Revd. [Reverend] C McKenzie
Mr D Sutherland
067 A heathy pasture hill situate about a mile to the east of Creag nan Geàrr on the Co- [County] boundary Its meaning obscure

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County of Sutherland -- Parish of Kildonan

Suidhe an Fhir-bhig [Note]
The Revd. [Reverend] Charles McKenzie in a Note dated 28th. January 1870
states "I have now ascertained the real Orthography in Gaelic and
you are quite safe in writing it as I give it." Name adopted accordingly

Suidhe an Fhir-bhig [Note]
Name changed
By order
John T. Hoban C.A. [Civilian Assistant]
O.S.O. [Ordnance Survey Office] Inverness 21.03.1877


Suidhe an Fhir-bhig [Note]
The article in the gen. sing. [genitive singular] is never in the form 'n
If a letter is to be eluded?? at all it is the letter e at the end of Suidhe

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