Map Reference: Baugh g
Name Type: house
Meaning:
Other Forms: Mans a' Bhàigh - MMcK, RMcI
Related Places:
Information: Clachan Guest House in Baugh had originally been the Baptist Church Manse. Mairi Campbell, Corrairigh, 3/2009.
Coinneach a' Mhinideir (Kenneth MacKenzie), the grandson of Duncan MacFarlane, the Baptist minister, was the first officer of the Discovery for the BANZARI expedition (British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute). The Discovery is now in Dundee - Hector MacPhail, Ruaig, 5/1996.
The Baugh guest house was started off by the MacIntyres, then Angus MacRae, then the MacCallum sisters, who were related to Mary Davies’ father in law (Eardsaidh Lachainn Dhùghaill). Angus MacRae, had come to Tiree at first as an electrician. He was a Gaelic speaker from Plockton or Ullapool. After him the Sinclairs ran the boarding house. Alasdair MacArthur, Balemartine, 12/2003.
Angus MacRae had a small shop in the extension on the east end of the house around 1962 - MMcK.
Local Form:
Languages : Norse, Gaelic, EnglishInformants: Margaret MacKinnon, Heanish, 5/1996
Informant 2: Rosie MacIntyre, Gott, 9/1994
Clachan Guest House, Baugh: Our family stayed at the guest house in successive summers through the 1960s when I was a very small boy. I can barely remember it, but recently revisited Tiree and was delighted to recognise it immediately.