Placename
Gaelic name: Glaic Fhionnlaigh
Name in Original Source: Glaic Fhionnlaigh
English meaning: Finlay's hollow
Placename feature: Defile
Notes: The following description is taken verbatim from the book The Gaelic Songs of Mary MacLeod, edited by J. Carmichael Watson, and published by the Scottish Gaelic Texts Society in 1933: Glaic Fhionnlaigh is beside the shore between Milton and Camusterrach, on the other side of the road from Milton loch at a distance of 30 or 40 yards. An old wall running from the loch to the glaic is called gàradh Fhionnlaigh. There is no local tradition of a battle, but a piece of level ground 150 or 200 yards away is called Blàr Dubh.<br /><br /><br /><br />The above place name is mentioned in Màiri Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh’s Marbhrann do Fhear na Comraich, the earliest work of one of Gaeldom’s foremost bards, in tribute to Roderick MacKenzie of Applecross.
W. J. Watson's notes:
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Feature Co-ordinates: 57.4222,-5.8231
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