Map Reference: Balephuil 2
Name Type: watercourse
Meaning: See Bèidhe in Longships on the Sand.
Other Forms: Abhuinn a’ Bhèidhe, 1878 OS 6inch 1st edition
Abhainn Bhì, multiple oral sources
Abhuinn a' Bhèidhe - ONB, p213 "The Nourishing River"
Related Places: Keand-dauar on the Pont map of 1662 comes from Ceann dobhair, Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree, Hector MacDougall and Rev. Hector Cameron, Archibald Sinclair, p.104.
Information:The Tiree Baptist church used to perform baptisms here until the channel was cleared out - Jean MacPhail, Balephuil, 9/1994
When the Baptists did their baptisms at the Amhainn Bhi they ”chur stad air an uisge” by damming up the stream before hand to get enough water to totally immerse someone. John Brown from the Sliabh, Balephuil, was baptised and got on his bicycle and cycled home soaking wet. Mairi Campbell, Corrairigh, 7/2008
Local Form:
Languages : GaelicInformants: multiple
Informant 2: OS
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