Placename
Gaelic name: Àird Heslaig
Name in Original Source: Ardheslaig
English meaning: Promontory of the hazel bay
Placename feature: Township
Notes: A township on the north coast of the Applecross peninsula, this point juts out into Loch Torridon. Also called: Ardetisag (Jansson's map, 1659)
W. J. Watson's notes: According to Roy Wentworth's Gaelic words and phrases from Wester Ross, p.30: The people of Ardheslaig, muinntir Åird Heslaig. The Ardheslaig bucks, buic Åird Heslaig (nickname for Ardheslaig people).
Map name appears in: OS 1905 Sheet XCI
Feature Co-ordinates: 57.546656,-5.707269
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