Map Reference: Milton 32
Name Type: sea
Meaning: Sand bar of Boramul
ON borg (with a fricative /g/, genitive borgar) ‘fort’, with ON múli ‘promontory’. The fort is the Iron Age broch ScG Dùn Mòr a’ Chaolais ‘the large fort of Caolas’, which stands above the harbour.
There is an Eilean Bhoramuil on Coll (OS: + ScG eilean ‘island’).
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Languages : Norse, GaelicInformants: Angus MacLean, Scarinish, 5/1996
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