Applecross Placenames Project

Placename

Gaelic name: Loch an Ràin

Name in Original Source: Loch an Ràin

English meaning: Loch of the cry/roar

Placename feature: Loch

Notes: A very small hill loch, north-west of Loch Lunndaidh (q.v.)<br /><br /><br /><br />The Ordnance Survey name book of the 1870s gives the meaning of this name as: Lake of the shriek

W. J. Watson's notes:

Map name appears in: OS 1880, 1905 Sheet XCI

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.501544,-5.709943

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