Applecross Placenames Project

Placename

Gaelic name: Earra Ghlas, An

Name in Original Source: Earra Glas

English meaning: Green pastureland [?]

Placename feature: Field

Notes: Another name recorded by Ian Fraser for the Scottish Place Name Survey, May 1971 (PN1971.016B), this name refers to a field that was once good arable ground before being planted with a conifer plantation during the 1960s (?), a plantation only felled in the winter of 2010-2011.

W. J. Watson's notes:

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Feature Co-ordinates: 57.43317,-5.805403

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