Placename
Gaelic name: Sgùrr a' Chaorachain
Name in Original Source: Sgùrr a' Chaorachain
English meaning: Mountain of the torrent
Placename feature: Hill
Notes: Recorded previously as Sgòr na Caorach (OS 1880 Sheets CII and CX); Sgòrr na Caorach (OS 1880 Sheet CIX). This is a name applied to a large sweep of mountainside
W. J. Watson's notes: 213: Sgùrr a' Chaorachain (2539) - (O.S.M., Sgorr na Caorach). Based on 'caoir', a blaze of fire, with the secondary meaning of torrent. The mountain is extremely steep on the Kishorn side.
Map name appears in: OS 1905 Sheet CIX
Feature Co-ordinates: 57.4204,-5.6897
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