Township: Barrapol,Ceann a’ Bharra

Map Reference: Kenavara 13

Name Type: cliff

Meaning: Leacan MhicShìridh - NB, "an old surname found in Tiree and Skye (and sometimes also seen as MacSherrie)"

Several McSheries found in Scarinish on 1779 Census

Other Forms: Leacan MhicSìridh - DMcN, HMcL

Leacan MhicShìridh - NB, "an old surname found in Tiree and Skye (and sometimes also seen as MacSherrie)" -

Related Places:

Information:There may be graves here.

Local Form: Liocan

Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Donald MacNeill (Dòmhnall an Tàilleir), The Land, 1/1994

Informant 2: Hugh MacLean, Barrapol, collected by Ailean Boyd

Informant 3: Bailtean is Ath-Ghairmean, Niall M Brownlie, Argyll Publishing, 1995, p156