Township: (Rubha) Craignis,Hough

Map Reference: Craignish 300

Name Type: shore

Meaning: See Craiknish in Longships on the Sand.

Other Forms: Kraginess - 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.

Craignish - The Turnbull Map of Tiree 1768 and accompanying survey text.

ONB p. 10 gives Rudha Chràiginis and Chraiginis.

Related Places:

Information:Cameron, Rev. Hector (ed.), Na Bàird Thirisdeach, The Tiree Association, 1932
Rev. Hector Cameron, p 432:

Siar i o’n traigh gu sail an Rudha,
O’m Fhang ge guineach a’ ghaoth;
A stigh mar a b’ aill gu ban Phuill – a – Mhanaich,
’S gun dail fo Charragh Phuirt-Staoin
Bha Conslum fo sroin is ceol na cruithean
Bha deonach ’mireag ri ’taobh;
’S aig Craignis fadheoidh an seol mu ’claigeann,
’S mo sheoid-sa dhachaidh le saod.


Local Form:

Languages : Norse

Informants: ONB

Informant 2: multiple