Township: Greenhill

Map Reference: Greenhill 20

Name Type: shore

Meaning: See Greasamull in Longships on the Sand.

Other Forms: By location possibly Row Smuckaberg - The map MVLA INSVLA in the Atlas of Scotland, Atlas Novus, by Joan Blaeu, 1654. These maps were largely based on work by Timothy Pont who mapped Scotland between 1583 and 1596. NLS, 123. [see Bergh, Sandaig and Dun Haingis]

OS gives Eilean Greasamul.

Most local people simply call it Greasamul.

Greasamul - Bailtean is Ath-Ghairmean, Niall M Brownlie, Argyll Publishing, 1995, p159.

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Languages : Norse, Gaelic

Informants: Alasdair Sinclair, Greenhill, 11/1993

Informant 2: multiple

Informant 3: OS