Placename
Gaelic name: Poll a' bhior
Name in Original Source: Poll a' bhior
English meaning: Well pool
Placename feature: Inland pool
Notes: This name is related to a pool somewhere near the current Hartfield House, but its exact location is unclear. The co-ordinates here are for the area just in front of what was the keeper's house at the time when Watson was writing
W. J. Watson's notes: 204: Hartfield - G. Coille-mhùiridh ... Near the keeper's house is a pool called Poll a' Bhior or a' Bhior-pholl; bior is an old Ir. word glossed 'water' and 'well'; 'Well-pool.'
Map name appears in: NG 74 NW
Feature Co-ordinates: 57.4543,-5.7991
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