Map Reference: Gott 1
Name Type: watercourse
Meaning: See Riaghain in Longships on the Sand.
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Information:"Easgannan a Loch an Riadhain," - Na Baird Thirisdeach, ed. Rev Hector Cameron, An Comunn Thirisdeach, 1932, p263.
A band of "Vikings" came to stay on a house on an island in Loch a' Riadhain while the man of the house was away. They stayed for a week and then left taking away his wife and three children and setting fire to the house - as told to Donald MacDoald, Heanish by Isabella MacIntyre, Gott while haymaking in 1951. In 1955 it was a very dry summer and Danny Gillespie was digging out An Dig Mhòr when he came accross burnt looking pieces of wood - DMcD, 9/1995 and 3/1997. Confirmed by Rosie and Babs MacIntyre, Gott, 4/1997.
There were two islands in the loch when he was a boy in the 1930s. He nicknamed them 'Coll' and 'Tiree'. There is 'charcoal' west of An Tobhta Glas - DMcI.
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Languages : Norse, GaelicInformants: Donald MacIntyre, Gott, 12/1995
Informant 2: OS
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