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Placename

Gaelic name: Gead an Òcraich

Name in Original Source: Gead an Òcraich

English meaning: Rig of the midden

Placename feature: Arable land

Notes: A small portion of arable land. (Rhoda Cameron, 22/04/2001) Gead can mean a lazy-bed, or ridge, basically, a patch of land. Next to it is Gead an Fhuarain (q.v.)

W. J. Watson's notes:

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Feature Co-ordinates: 57.378336,-5.80766

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