Map Reference: Aird a Tuath 13
Name Type: shore
Meaning: Gully of the galley
ScG ‘gully of the galley’
‘When Iain Garve MacLean of Coll defeated the remnants of the MacNeills at the bloody battle of Bàgh Ghunnnaidh, the survivors fled across Gunna sound to a small cove near Urbhaig, hotly pursued by the MacLean galley. The pursuers landed at a small gully known as Sloc na Birlinn to this day. As night was falling, the MacLeans hid there till morning. Then they set out to hunt down the enemy, putting them all to the sword. That was how this cove got the name of Port Chloinn Nèill [‘the inlet of the MacNeills’].’ (Brownlie 1995, 128)
Other Forms:
Related Places: See Port Chloinn Neill.
Information:Where the pursuing MacLeans came to land - WMcI.
When Iain Garve MacLean of Coll defeated the remnants of the Macneills at the bloody battle of Bàgh Ghunnnaidh, the survivors fled accross Gunna sound to a small cover near Urbhaig, hotly pursued by the MacLean galley.
The pursuers landed at a small gully known as Sloc na Birlinn ('Hollow of the Galley') to this day. As night was falling, the MacLeans hid there till morning. Then they set out to hunt down the enemy, putting them all to the sword. That was how this cove got the name of Port Chloinn Nèill. Bailtean is Ath-Ghairmean, Niall M Brownlie, Argyll Publishing, 1995, p128.
Local Form: Sloc na Biùlainn - AMcL ("a ship")
Languages : GaelicInformants: Bailtean is Ath-Ghairmean, Niall M Brownlie, Argyll Publishing, 1995, p128.
Informant 2: Willie MacIntosh, Caolas, 1/1994
Informant 3: Angus MacLean, Scarinish, 3/2010
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