Township: Caolas,Milton

Map Reference: Milton 71

Name Type: agricultural

Meaning: The hard enclosure. Fang usually means a cattle pen, but it can also mean a small enclosure where crops were grown - Iain Fraser, The School of Scottish Studies, 7/1995

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Hard bottomed, and so unsuitable for potatoes, but oats were grown there - AMcL.

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Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Angus MacLean, Scarinish, 6/1995