Township: Tiree

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Meaning: See Týrvist in Longships on the Sand.

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This translation of the text accompanying the Blaeu atlas from the NLS website: "Then Lunga stretches about two miles in length; less than half is Bac Mor. Six miles back from this to the going down of the sun is Tiree (35), eight miles long, three wide, the richest land abounding in everything for this life of ours, in herds and crops and fishing and the marine hatching of birds. Here too is a loch of sweet water, here is an old castle, and a harbour well suited for long ships."
The Gaelic Otherworld, ed Ronald Black, p387:
Noa-terms [a name used by fishermen who avoid the real place name because of superstition] such as Eilean Tìr fo Thuinn ('the Isle of the Land under the Waves').

"It had a more ancient name, Rioghachd bar fo thuin, i.e. the kingdom whose summits are lower than the waves" - Old Statistical Account 1791 by Rev Archibald McColl, p393.

"An Eilean Tir-fo-Thuinn - Na Baird Thirisdeach, ed. Rev Hector Cameron, An Comunn Thirisdeach, 1932, p240.

Tiree also had the poetical name of Land of the barley, or Tìr an Eòrna:

"Ris an abrar Tir Iosal an Eorna" - Na Baird Thirisdeach, ed. Rev Hector Cameron, An Comunn Thirisdeach, 1932, p242.

"Tir Iosal an Eorna" - Na Baird Thirisdeach, ed. Rev Hector Cameron, An Comunn Thirisdeach, 1932, p290 and 398

"Tir an Eorna" - Na Baird Thirisdeach, ed. Rev Hector Cameron, An Comunn Thirisdeach, 1932, p388 and 395.

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