Placename
Gaelic name: Cùaig
Name in Original Source: Cuaig
English meaning: Cow bay
Placename feature: Township
Notes: Reverend John MacQueen writing in the Old Statistical Account, Volume XIV, 381: ... All those places, whose names terminate in ic, which, in the Danish language, is said to signify a bay, as Tosgic, Cuic, Dibic, and Shittic,hath each of them an inlet of the sea.<br /><br /><br /><br />An Admiralty chart of 1850 relates all instances of the name Cùaigas being spelt Coaha
W. J. Watson's notes: 206: Cùaig - Norse 'kúa-vik,'cow-bay; the bay is now 'òb Chùaig.' There are, besides the bay and township, rudha Chùaig, abhainn Chùaig (the latter from Loch gainmheach), and eilean Chùaig
Map name appears in: OS 1881, 1905 Sheet LXXXA
Feature Co-ordinates: 57.550373,-5.839789
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