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Placename

Gaelic name: Sgeir a' Ghàir (?)

Name in Original Source: Sgeir a' Ghair

English meaning: Skerry of the sea-din

Placename feature: Skerry

Notes: Possibly Sgeir a' Ghàir. Wentworth (2003), 195: gàir: (sound from the shore in certain weather conditions, generally frost) m. Gàir. There's a din coming from the shore, tha gàir aig a' chladach.

W. J. Watson's notes:

Map name appears in: NG 76 SW; OS 1880, 1905 Sheet LXXX

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.586476,-5.808807

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