Map Reference: Mannal 60
Name Type: agricultural
Meaning: Colin's hillock
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Related Places: Croit Chailein Chaimbeul.
Information:Named after her maternal great grandfather, Colin Campbell, a stonemason who came to Tiree for the building of Skerryvore lighthouse - EK.
Her great grandfather was a Colin Campbell who was a stonemason who came from Ardnamurchan to work on Skerryvore lighthouse. He got a croft up Ùtraid Bean na Sgiobair. He married a Lismore woman and had a son Thomas, who had a son Colin, who had a son Sandy - Jessie McKinnon, Mannal, 9/1997 and 3/1998. This prominent rock has cup markings on its summit - JH, 10/2008
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Languages : GaelicInformants: Eilidh Kennedy (Eilidh bheag), Balevullin, 1/1995
Informant 2: Alexina MacLean, Mannal, 1/1994
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