Placename
Gaelic name: Am Faing Mòr
Name in Original Source: Faingmor
English meaning: Big fank
Placename feature: Agricultural feature
Notes: Faingmòr on the OS 1880 and 1905 editions of Sheet LXXX. The word faing appears to be interchangeably a masculine or feminine noun in Applecross Gaelic; in this case, masculine, as am faing mòr was provided as a name by Fearchar MacIllFhinnein (email, 10th August 2012)
W. J. Watson's notes: 206: Faingmore, and Roinn an fhaing mhòir - Big fank and big fank point.
Map name appears in: NG 76 SW; OS Sheet 1880, 1905 LXXX
Feature Co-ordinates: 57.577833,-5.80164
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