Map Reference: Balinoe 6
Name Type: sliabh
Meaning: See Ceansa in Longships on the Sand.
Other Forms: Ceansa - ONB p197, "a small hill...meaning unknown."
Ceansa, 1878 OS 6inch 1st edition
Cheos-thaobh, Cameron 1932, 228
Ceòsaibh, Brownlie 1995, 100
Cnoc na Ceòsabh, Hugh MacLean, Barrapol, 3/1994?(oral source)
Mullach Cheòsabh, Willie MacLean, Balinoe, 12/1996 (oral source)
Related Places:
Information:"Gu'n robh mo bhas ris air taillibh Cheos-thaobh" - Na Baird Thirisdeach, ed. Rev Hector Cameron, An Comunn Thirisdeach, 1932, p228 may refer to this.
This was in Heylipol in her childhood - Seonaid Brown, Balephuil, 10/2011.
Local Form:
Languages : Norse, Gaelic, Iron, ObscureInformants: Mairi Campbell, Corrairigh, 7/2009
Informant 2: Willie MacLean, Balinoe, 12/1996
Informant 3: ONB
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