Placename
Gaelic name: Òb na h-Uamha
Name in Original Source: Ob na h-Uamha
English meaning: Bay of the cave
Placename feature: Sea bay, inlet
Notes: This large bay is the final bay on the north-west coast of the Applecross peninsula, before the coastline turns in an east-south-east direction. It lies dues west of the township of Na Feàrna Mòra. Bishop Reeves, PSAS III, p. 278: The Red Priest also officiated in a cave in this parish, at a place called Fearn-na-mor. The sitting-stones are still in the cave, which is called Ob-na-nughach. [This name refers to the bay where the cave is situated, rather than cave itself.]
W. J. Watson's notes: 206: Ob na h-Uamha - Cave bay; also Creag na h-Uamha, rock of the cave. The cave in question is on the east side of the headland, facing the north-eastern bight of Ob na h-Uamha, and is called an Uaimh Shiannta, the charmed or tabooed cave. The most northerly point of Applecross, Sròn an Iarruinn, iron point, wrongly given on the O.S.M. as Rudha na h-Uamha, which latter name belongs to the headland that projects north-westward into Ob na h-Uamha.
Map name appears in: NG 76 SW; OS 1880, 1905 Sheet LXXX; OS 1881, 1905 Sheet LXXXA
Feature Co-ordinates: 57.5782,-5.823873
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