Applecross Placenames Project

Placename

Gaelic name: Lochan Prapa

Name in Original Source: Lochan Prapa

English meaning: Quick Lochs or Quick Little Lochs ??

Placename feature: Loch

Notes: Four very small, inter-connected lochs in the hill north-west of Loch Lunndaidh (q.v.) The co-ordinates reflect the centre of the largest of them.<br /><br /><br /><br />The Ordnance Survey name books of the 1870s suggests that the name means: Speedy Lakes.

W. J. Watson's notes:

Map name appears in: Sheet 1880 XCII

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.492153,-5.655761

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