Township: Balemartine

Map Reference: Balemartine 2

Name Type: shore

Meaning: See See Port na Luinge in Longships on the Sand.

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Information:"Some men engaged in excavating the ground for a road found a number of cists containing bones and clay vessels. I spent a day in digging at the same spot, but only found two cists with a little bone dust in them." Sands J PSAS, 1881-2, 463
Hector MacNeill (Eachann an Tàilleir) kept a boat there.

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Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Jessie MacKinnon (Teasaidh Lachainn), Mannal, 11/1993

Informant 2: Neil MacDonald, Balevullin, 5/1995

Informant 3: OS