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Gaelic name: Loch Beag

Name in Original Source: Loch Beag

English meaning: Little loch

Placename feature: Loch

Notes: The inner, north-west-facing sea loch which offers a good harbour to the fishing boats of Àird Heisleagon the west side of that township.<br /><br /><br /><br />Also called Loch Beg (MacKenzie's The north part of Sky Island and the adjacent main of Scotland, 1775)

W. J. Watson's notes:

Map name appears in: OS 1880, 1905 Sheet LXXX

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.541989,-5.709083

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