Map Reference: Heanish 46
Name Type: road
Meaning: The side road of Heanish
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Languages : Norse, GaelicInformants: Ann MacDonald, Druimasadh, Balevullin, 4/1994
Ùtraid Hianais
Township: Heanish
Map Reference: Heanish 46
Name Type: road
Meaning: The side road of Heanish
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Languages : Norse, GaelicInformants: Ann MacDonald, Druimasadh, Balevullin, 4/1994
Had a look at Heanish tonight. Slightly hard on an ipad, but a few otther names. And my Gaelic is terrible so probably there is a lot mispelt etc…
Rock to west of the Cleir is the sgeir gharbh…next rock is Sgeir fhada…there are numbers on the chart but dont seem to be names list
West side of eilean na gobhair is the am cul phort…i suppose culport nuclear base has the same name
Out from there is the a clach bhan..maybe 30 yards off shore..only at very low water does it show but on a clear day you can see it at some depth…odd as it is a good place for lobsters but the rock itself is clean/ no seaweed which is weird
You have am garbh port…but above it there is a steep slope above the inlet…that is stallachan a gharbh phort…cliff is maybe overdoing it but that was the name!
At the fever hospital, the point coming out is rubha’n ospadail…in the sea there towards the west but closer to the hospital quite far in is sgeir na partan…you can reach it from shore on a really low tide and there are holes under the rock where you can lift out brown crabs…(last verified 30+ years ago!)
Interestingly again, same name different place…you have snoig at the west end of eilean na gobhair… i always though it was the other side beside lucaig
Other oddity is you have two entries for two rocks…sgeir ceann rubha which is from an ONS chart and sgeir a righe, Neil Johnston’s name for it…there is only one rosk there- it is quite a big prominent rock, probably 25 or 30 yards long which a high point…the latter name is the one i heard; used to fish there a lot…i had seen a chart with the former name; i wonder if the more correct name got shortened, colloquialised over time?