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Gaelic name: Eilean Mòr

Name in Original Source: Eilean Mòr

English meaning: Big island

Placename feature: Island

Notes: This island lies east of Rudha Glas and just off the mouth of Camas an Eilein on the coast near the settlement of Àirigh nan Cruithneachd. See An Garbh-eilean (q.v.)

W. J. Watson's notes: 207: Camas an eilein - Island bay; the island is An garbh eilean, the rough island, called in O.S.M. Eilean mór. Further on is Glas sgeir, grey skerry

Map name appears in: OS 1880, 1905 Sheet LXXX

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.559632,-5.752119

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