Placename
Gaelic name: Eilean Beag / Eilean Beag Chròlaig / Eilean Beag Chròlainn
Name in Original Source: Croulin Beg
English meaning: Little Crowlin
Placename feature: Island
Notes: Bishop Reeves, PSAS III, p. 281: Lower down, on the south-west, are three islands, now known as Croulin Beg, Croulin Meadhonach, and Croulin Mor, that is, Little, Middle, and Great Croulin. The first of these, which is the most northern, is marked on Thomson's Map St Rufus' Island, a name now not locally known, but justified by the ecclesiastical traces which remain on it. <br /><br /><br /><br />On page 270, Reeves refers to this island as St Ruphus's Island. On Roy's military map it is called both St Rufus's Id and Croulin Marie (as in Cròlainn Mha-Ruibhe - Maelrubha's Crowlin).
W. J. Watson's notes: 216: Crowlin Islands - G. Cròlaig, but also Cròlainn; An Linne Chròlaigeach, the pool of Crowlin, between these islands and Scalpay
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Feature Co-ordinates: 57.35359,-5.854157
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