Township: Balinoe

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.

'Mr Hugh MacDonald, Balemartine has erected an excellent coal shed on the Balinoe Common. It will be very handy for the people of the district.' (Oban Times and Argyllshire Advertiser, 11 July 1903, 6)

Local Form:

Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Willie Lamont, Mannal, 9/1995

Informant 2: Donald Kennedy, Balinoe, 9/1995