Township: Caolas,Milton

Map Reference: Milton 49

Name Type: shore

Meaning: Inlet of the Spanish

Other Forms:
Port nan Spàinteach

Related Places:

Information:Four or five bodies of Spanish sailors were washed up here "hundreds of years ago." There are four Spanish graves by the shore at 45 degrees in front of Johnny Johnston’s house. Angus MacLean, Scarinish, 3/2006 (told to him by Iain Fhearchair).

Local Form:

Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Angus MacLean, Scarinish, 2/1996