Map Reference: Heanish 27
Name Type: sea
Meaning: Heanish sea rock
Other Forms: Clet Heaness - 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.
Cleit Hianish - The Turnbull Map of Tiree 1768 and accompanying survey text.
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Languages : Norse, GaelicInformants: Neil Johnston, Heanish, 5/1994
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