Township: Balephuil

Map Reference: Balephuil 66

Name Type: watercourse

Meaning:

Other Forms:

Related Places: See Ceann an Dobhair, Balephuil

Information:
An Dobhar Mor which “flows through the township of Balephuil.” - Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree, Hector MacDougall and Rev. Hector Cameron, Archibald Sinclair, p101.

Implied from the Blaeu atlas of 1654 with the name Keand-dauar or Ceann an Dobhair, the mouth of the big ditch.


Local Form:

Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree, Hector MacDougall and Rev. Hector Cameron, Archibald Sinclair.