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 : GaelicInformants: Duncan MacPhee, Scarinish, 8/1994
Informant 2: The Turnbull Map of Tiree 1768 and accompanying survey text.
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