Map Reference: Balinoe 34
Name Type: building
Meaning: Coal store
Scottishmining.co.uk A Glossary of Scotch Mining Terms: COAL-RITH, or COAL-REE, or COAL-FAULD, A sale place for coal other than at a colliery
Other Forms: Coalree Chù-Dhèis
Coalree Doan - Hector J Campbell, Cornaigbeg, 5/1996
Stòr Ghuail Lachainn Dhòmhnaill - WL.
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Information:One year at Hallowe'en the boys put one cart inside Stòr Ghuail Doan, whose walls were six feet high, by taking the wheels off. Seonaid Brown, Balephuil, 9/2008. A walled enclosure at the beach topped by a strand of wire. 'Doan' (Duncan MacArthur) took over as coal merchant from Lachainn Dhòmhnaill in Balemartine.
The walls were 8 feet high.
Local Form:
Languages : GaelicInformants: Willie Lamont, Mannal, 9/1995
Informant 2: Donald Kennedy, Balinoe, 9/1995
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