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Placename

Gaelic name: Sgeir Dhraoraig

Name in Original Source: Sgeir Dhraoraig

English meaning: Blood bay skerry

Placename feature: Skerry

Notes: This name should be treated with caution as it is only suggested by Roderick Gillanders, when speaking to the Scottish Place Name Survey in May 1971, that the large skerry lying just off the shore below the long-abandoned township of cfDraoraig was called Sgeir Dhraoraig

W. J. Watson's notes:

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Feature Co-ordinates: 57.359268,-5.720521

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