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Gaelic name: Creag nan Sgarbh (2)

Name in Original Source: Creag nan Sgarbh (2)

English meaning: Rock of the cormorants

Placename feature: Rock

Notes: (2) This Creag nan Sgarbh is marked on the Ordnance Survey map sheets as a promontory forming the west shore of Camas na Caillich (q.v.), but it is more likely to be one of the prominent rocks on the shoreline of the promontory

W. J. Watson's notes:

Map name appears in: OS 1880, 1905 Sheet LXXX; NG 76 SW

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.574521,-5.786888

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