Placename
Gaelic name: Eilean Mòr / Eilean Mòr Chròlaig / Eilean Mòr Chròlainn
Name in Original Source: Croulin Mor
English meaning: Large/Greater 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. There is a note in the papers of Alexander Carmichael, compiler of Carmina Gadelica, which says: Croulin ghlas an ime (Grey Crowlin of the butter). Fine butter in this rocky heathery isle. The butter here is as sweet as honey.<br /><br /><br /><br />Also called I Croulin (MacKenzie's The south part of Sky Island and the adjacent main of Scotland, 1775); Cronlin(Herman Moll's maps of 1708, 1714)
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: 57.349878,-5.836938
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