Map Reference: Baugh 54
Name Type: house
Meaning: The house of poverty; the store
Other Forms: An Stòr - AS
Taigh nam Bochd - NJ
Related Places:
Information:Possibly built by An Clachair Bàn who had been brought in by the estate from Mull - Hector Macphail, Ruaig, 4/1995.
During the famine of 1846, poor relief was given out from this building at 1/2 lb of pease meal per family member - AS.
Poor people were given 1 st of oatmeal a week - NJ.
Local Form:
Languages : GaelicInformants: Alasdair Sinclair, Brock, 8/1995
Informant 2: Neil Johnston, Heanish, 5/1994 and 4/1995
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