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Gaelic name: Eilean Meadhanach / Eilean Meadhanach Chròlaig / Eilean Meadhanach Chròlainn

Name in Original Source: Croulin Meadhonach

English meaning: Middle-sized 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.

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

Map name appears in: Miscellaneous

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.346766,-5.84735

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