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Gaelic name: Cruinn-leum, An

Name in Original Source: An Cruinn-leum

English meaning: The round leap

Placename feature: Bay

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W. J. Watson's notes: 205: Cruinn-leum, the round leap, is a narrow, rounded bay; cf. The common Cuing-leum, narrow leap, in English Coylum.

Map name appears in: NG 64 NE; OS 1880, 1905 Sheet CIIA

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.467,-5.859

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