Applecross Placenames Project

Placename

Gaelic name: Camas an Eilein

Name in Original Source: Camas an Eilein

English meaning: Bay of the island

Placename feature: Bay

Notes: A small island off the north Applecross coast which gives its name to a former shooting lodge on the shore immediately opposite it to the south-west

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: 57.557179,-5.756078

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