Township: Gott

Map Reference: Gott 44

Name Type: agriculture

Meaning: The upper glebe of the minister

Other Forms: Minister's Glebe - Turnbull

Related Places: Glìob a' Mhinisteir Iseal.

Information:
A 37 acre piece of ground to the east of Ben Balephetrish - The Turnbull Map of Tiree 1768 and accompanying survey text.

"The Rev Charles Campbell, minister of Tiree from 1754 to 1779. During his incumbency he lived in Balephetrish and tenanted the farm there.” Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree, Hector MacDougall and Rev. Hector Cameron, Archibald Sinclair, p82. See also Balephetrish entry in same book.


Local Form:

Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Duncan MacPhee, Scarinish, 8/1994

Informant 2: The Turnbull Map of Tiree 1768 and accompanying survey text.