Map Reference:
Name Type: township
Meaning: The first element is the Gaelic ceathramh or quarterland (even though there seem to be five).
This is ON hús ‘house ... in compounds húsa-garðr the yard-wall’ (CV, 294) with ON garðr ‘enclosure’.
There is a Housigarth in Shetland (Macniven 2015, 140); there is a Housegord in Weisdale, Shetland (SP); Hus- is a common specific in Norway, including Husby, Rissa, Norway (NG); Húsadalur occurs three times as a settlement name in the Faroe Islands (KO); and Húsagarður occurs as a farm name in Iceland (SAM).
Other Forms: Kerahusager - Tiree Rental 1747.
Kerahusagar - The Turnbull Map of Tiree 1768 and accompanying survey text.
Kerachussegar - List of Inhabitants of Tiree 1776
Kerenussigair - Typed List of Inhabitants of Tyree and their Age in September 1779.
Taken from an unknown publication, 1998.201.1
Kerachusegar (1794) - Argyll Estate Instructions, ed. Eric Cregeen, Scottish History Society, 1964
Related Places:
Information:One of the townships to the west of Beinn Hough, evacuated because of erosion.
The people had to leave Murdat in the spring of 1815 because of sand blow - SA 1974/134/A1.
Local Form:
Languages : Gaelic, Obscure
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