Applecross Placenames Project

Placename

Gaelic name: Sròn a' Mhàis

Name in Original Source: Sròn a' Mhàis

English meaning: Point of the buttock

Placename feature: Promontory

Notes: An ice-smoothed and very rounded rocky promontory to the north of the township of Àird Heslaig

W. J. Watson's notes: 207: Sròn a' Mhàis - Point of the buttock; màs Airdheisleag and màs Diabaig or màs na h-Araird opposite it, two great ice-smoothed and rounded rocky promontories, are known as An dà mhàs, the two buttocks

Map name appears in: OS 1880, 1905 Sheet LXXX

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.553886,-5.711667

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