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Gaelic name: Allt na Mealg
Name in Original Source: Allt na Mealg
English meaning: Stream of the milt/roe
Placename feature: Stream
Notes: Unknown location. There is a reference in the papers of Kenneth Macrae F.S.A. Scot. which says that there was a fishing station in Camasteel, but there is no evidence to definitively place this name in the landscape. According to Edward dwelly's Gaelic dictionary, both mealg and meilg are used in the Gairloch district, so the same may well be true of Applecross Gaelic dialect. Possibly Allt na Mealg and Allt na Meilg are both acceptable.
W. J. Watson's notes: Alexander Forbes, 'Gaelic names of beasts (mammalia) ...' Pg 362: At Applecross there is a place called Allt-na-mealg, where large quantities of fish used to be gutted and cleaned.
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