Placename
Gaelic name: Eilean an Naoimh
Name in Original Source: Eilean nan Naomh
English meaning: Saint's Island; Island of the Saint
Placename feature: Island
Notes: SSS PN1963_025A: Kenneth Macrae, Applecross historian specifically pronounces this name as Eilean an Naoimh, Island of the Saint. Oral tradition states that Saint Maelrubha, or Maelruba, spent a night here on his first arrival in Applecross. It could also, plausibly, be Eilean nan Naomh (Island of the saints). Bishop Reeves (PSAS III, p.281) notes the following: Off the shore, opposite Camusterrach, is an island now called Rugg's Island, but marked on Thomson's Map I. Na nuag, or Saint's Isle. It contains one grave, but no other ecclesiastical traces. [Eilean na Nuag] <br /><br /><br /><br />It has also been suggested that this island, due to its proximity to the monastic community and its small size, may have been a terra desertum where monks would go for peace and to meditate.<br /><br />An Admiralty chart of 1851 lists it as Saint Id
W. J. Watson's notes:
Map name appears in: NG 74 SW; OS 1880 Sheet CIXA
Feature Co-ordinates: 57.402361,-5.827161
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