Applecross Placenames Project

Placename

Gaelic name: Applecross Bay

Name in Original Source: Applecross Bay

English meaning: Applecross Bay

Placename feature: Bay

Notes: In general usage, no informants today ever remember hearing a Gaelic name for this sea loch, or any equivalent name other than the Bay. However, it appears from a recording with the School of Scottish Studies that Kenneth Macrae, F.S.A. Scot., called it Loch Mòr (q.v.)

W. J. Watson's notes:

Map name appears in: NG 74 NW; Admiralty Chart 1851

Feature Co-ordinates: 57.438,-5.819

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