Placename
Gaelic name: Saothair, An t- [?]
Name in Original Source: Saothrach, An t-
English meaning: False land
Placename feature: Shoreline feature
Notes: This name appears in an undated list compiled by Kenneth Macrae F.S.A. Scot., (1903-1982) which is held by the Applecross Historical Society. The list runs in splintered sequences so it is hard to place this name accurately, but it would appear to be somewhere on the north-west corner of the Applecross peninsula north of Cùl na Cille. The exact name is unclear at this point and requires further investigation.<br /><br /><br /><br />It may be that it means a 'false land', i.e. a spit or area of land covered by high tides. The word is relatively common in place names in the north-west of Scotland
W. J. Watson's notes: 238: Here is an t-Saoir, a common term on the west, applied to a bank between an island and the shore which is bare at low tide, or to a spit of land projecting into the sea, covered at high tide and bare at low tide. Probably for saobh-thìr, false-land, i.e., land that is not real dry land.<br /><br /><br /><br />255The spit of land projecting into the sea and covered at high tide is called an Saothair.
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