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Placename

Gaelic name: Rubha na Feàrna (1)

Name in Original Source: Rubha na Fearn

English meaning: Promontory of the alder

Placename feature: Promontory

Notes: (1) A small promontory that sits immediately to the north-west of Loch Rubha Àird Choinnich on an Admiralty chart of 1850, it is called Fern na More Point, or more correctly Rubha na Feàrna Mòra (q.v.)

W. J. Watson's notes: 206: Rudha na fearna - Alder point

Map name appears in: NG 76 SW; OS 1905 Sheet LXXX; OS 1881, 1905 Sheet LXXXA

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.57536,-5.84013

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