Map Reference: Kenavara 60
Name Type: cliff
Meaning: ONB p.219 gives Eilean na Bò Mòire, or "island of the big cow." One of the witnesses was Alexander MacLean, shepherd, Kenvar.
Other Forms: Eilean nam Bàthadh -WMcL and DMcN and David McClounnan, Balephuil, 11/1997 - island of the drownings.
Eilean nam Ba - Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree, Hector MacDougall and Rev. Hector Cameron, Archibald Sinclair, p102.
Eilean nam Bà - 'The Cows' Isle' Bailtean is Ath-Ghairmean, Niall M Brownlie, Argyll Publishing, 1995, p76 and 153; Flora MacArthur, Moss, 8/2016
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Languages : GaelicInformants: William MacLean, Barrapol, 1/1994
Informant 2: OS
Informant 3: Donald MacNeill (Dòmhnall an Tailleir), The Land, 4/1998
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