Placename
Gaelic name: Fasadh na Fèile
Name in Original Source: Fasadh na Faile
English meaning: Stance of the cattle fair
Placename feature: Field
Notes: Recorded by AHS survey. Ian Fraser recordes it as a place: ... Where cattle fairs or markets were held, until quite recently. [Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Vol. LVII, 210] <br /><br /><br /><br />This refers to the whole green park beside Applecross village hall, and where Ùisdean Fergasdan kept his rams. Travellers used to camp there as well, into the 1950s. They came in summer for a couple of weeks selling their wares, and then going away with scrap iron from the shore. They still used horses and carts then, c. 1950s. When Donald Cameron (1908-1995) was little they would put out the dung onto the fields for the crofters. Some of the family names of the travellers: Millers, Stewarts, Wilsons, Whites. Some of these families would be in Lochcarron all year round.
W. J. Watson's notes:
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Feature Co-ordinates: 57.420807,-5.819684
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