Applecross Placenames Project

Placename

Gaelic name: Ruadh-chamas

Name in Original Source: Ruadh-chamas

English meaning: Russet-coloured bay

Placename feature: Bay

Notes: Roderick Gillanders gives this name to the Scottish Place Name Survey in May 1971, and also a variant cfCamas a' Rubha. He attributed it to the stretch of shoreline between the townships of Coille Ghille and An Àird Bhàn

W. J. Watson's notes:

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Feature Co-ordinates: 57.386642,-5.817798

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