Map Reference: Vaul 21
Name Type: shore
Meaning: An unusual, and early, Gaelic name. Irish tiompan 'small, abrupt hill' (Cox 2002, 381). See Tiumpan Head
Other Forms: Sìumban - LMcL
An Sìomban - MMcK
Eilean an t-Siabain, OS 1st edition 1878, ONSB p101, "island of spray."
Related Places:
Information: Refers to two small islands - LMcL.
Local Form:
Languages : Gaelic, ObscureInformants: Mary MacKinnon, Seaside, 11/1993
Informant 2: Lachie MacLean (Lachainn Sheumais), Vaul, 6/1995 and 4/1996
Informant 3: OS
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