Township: Caolas,Milton

Map Reference: Milton 73

Name Type: watercourse

Meaning: The big ditch

"Fèithe 'sinew' is used of rills or trenches formed by the action of rain water streaming from the surface of an already saturated moor." Cox R 2002, The Gaelic Place-names of Carloway, 79

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Information:
Draining what was An Loch Fada which extended up to Cnoc na h-Anaid - AMcL.

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Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Angus MacLean, Scarinish, 2/1996