Map Reference: Ruaig 5
Name Type: house
Meaning: House of the tailor (now known as Sackhill). The tailor was a MacDonald - AMcL.
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Information: Sackhill was built around 1900 by the Clachaire Mòr (the grandfather of Alasdair MacArthur, Balemartine). The walls cost £14 to build. Sackhill was called Cnoc nam Bagaichean. Hugh MacKinnon, Torr a’ Bhaile, 9/2008.
His mother was Mairi Ciorstaidh Tàilleir. When she was young she walked with her sister Morag to buy a spinning wheel from Eirdsidh Tuairneir for 2/6d and then carried it back between them - HMcK, 3/2010.
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Languages : GaelicInformants: Angus MacLean, Scarinish, 11/1996 and 3/2010
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