Placename
Gaelic name: Creag na h-Uamha
Name in Original Source: Creag na h-Uamha
English meaning: Rock of the cave
Placename feature: Rock
Notes: This is a name located on the north coast of the Applecross peninsula
W. J. Watson's notes: 206: Ob na h-Uamha - Cave bay; also Creag na h-Uamha, rock of the cave. The cave in question is on the east side of the headland, facing the north-eastern bight of Ob na h-Uamha, and is called an Uaimh Shiannta, the charmed or tabooed cave. The most northerly point of Applecross, Sròn an Iarruinn, iron point, wrongly given on the O.S.M. as Rudha na h-Uamha, which latter name belongs to the headland that projects north-westward into Ob na h-Uamha.
Map name appears in: OS 1880, 1905 Sheet LXXX; NG 76 SW
Feature Co-ordinates: 57.581117,-5.822266
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