Placename
Gaelic name: Sgrotan na Bà Duinne
Name in Original Source: Sgrotan na Bà Duinne
English meaning: Shelves of the brown cow [or: Little shelf of the brown cow?]
Placename feature: Rock
Notes: Rev. Dr. Kenneth MacDonald, 29th November 2012, An Àird, Dhubh, mentioned hearing this name from Ruaraidh Ali Bhàin. It is a rock feature, almost like a set of steps or small platforms in cfCreag nan Sgarbh, the rocks bounding the east side of cfPoll Creadha. <br /><br /><br /><br />Roy Wentworth's Gaelic words and phrases of Wester Ross gives the word sgrota as being a shelf of rock; or even '... a piece or rock partly broken away from a crag, though not completely fallen away.' He gives as an example (pg 680): An Sgrota Gorm - the green shelf - which is a slab or shelf on a sea-cliff near Diabaig which sheep go onto to graze
W. J. Watson's notes:
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Feature Co-ordinates: 57.39661,-5.810773
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