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Placename

Gaelic name: Meall Breac

Name in Original Source: Meall Breac

English meaning: Speckled lump

Placename feature: Hill

Notes: Richard Cox's 'The Gaelic Place-names of Carloway, Isle of Lewis' gives 'breac' as meaning 'variegated'. This hill is due east of Loch Lunndaidh.

W. J. Watson's notes:

Map name appears in: Sheet 1880 CIII, XCII

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.483,-5.642

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