Applecross Placenames Project

Placename

Gaelic name: Fuaran na Caillich

Name in Original Source: Fuaran a' Chaillich

English meaning: Old woman's spring

Placename feature: Well

Notes: Recorded by AHS survey. This name should probably be (grammatically) Fuaran na Caillich. This name isn't on the official Ordnance Survey maps, but is marked as a well on the 1880 edition of map sheet CIX (not marked on the 1905 edition, however)

W. J. Watson's notes:

Map name appears in: Sheet 1880 CIX-AHS

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.412,-5.8191

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