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Placename

Gaelic name: Lochan Coire na Poite (2)

Name in Original Source: Lochan Coire na Poite (2)

English meaning: Little lochs of the pot/cauldron

Placename feature: Loch

Notes: Plural. These three lochs (two larger and one very small) lie in A' Phoit (q.v.), and are very close together on a north-west to south-east axis. The co-ordinates given are for the southernmost of the three lochans. A stream flows out of the south-eastern one, eastwards down Coire na Poite (q.v.) and into another two lochans which are referred to on the Ordnance Survey maps as Lochan Coire na Poite (q.v.)

W. J. Watson's notes:

Map name appears in: Sheet 1880 CIII

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.442243,-5.653137

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