Map Reference: Balemartine 57
Name Type:
Meaning: Soroby dry stone dyke
Other Forms: Garradh Shoiribidh - Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree, Hector MacDougall and Rev. Hector Cameron, Archibald Sinclair, p114.
Garadh Shoiribidh - Cameron, Rev. Hector (ed.), Na Bàird Thirisdeach, The Tiree Association, 1932, p142.
Related Places:
Information: This feature is a part of the boundary between Balephuil and Mannal, at the base of Beinn Haoidhnis - i.e. some way from Sorobaidh. This implies that Soroby had quite extensive lands at some point - JH.
Local Form:
Languages : Norse, GaelicInformants: Bailtean is Ath-Ghairmean, Niall M Brownlie, Argyll Publishing, 1995, p 96.
Informant 2: Eilidh Kennedy (Eilidh bheag), Balemartine, 2/1994
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