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Placename

Gaelic name: Rinn an Fhaing Mhòir

Name in Original Source: Roinn an Fhaing Mhòir

English meaning: Point of the big fank

Placename feature: Promontory

Notes: Should it be: 'Rinn an Fhaing Mhòir' - promontory of the big fank? This is a promontory near the township of Na Feàrna Mòra

W. J. Watson's notes: 206: Faingmore, and Roinn an fhaing mhòir - Big fank and big fank point.

Map name appears in: NG 76 SW; OS 1880, 1905 Sheet LXXX

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.578873,-5.799904

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