Map Reference:
Name Type: township
Meaning: See Kerachrosegar in Longships on the Sand.
Other Forms: Crossigar - Inhabitants of the Inner Isles 1716, Scottish Record Society 21, ed . Nicholas MacLean-Bristol, 1998. Recorded between Murdat and Kilchenichbeg.
Kerachrossger - Tiree Rental 1747.
Kerachrosegar - The Turnbull Map of Tiree 1768 and accompanying survey text.
Kerachrossegar - List of Inhabitants of Tiree 1776
Kerachrosegar (1794) - Argyll Estate Instructions, ed. Eric Cregeen, Scottish History Society, 1964
Kerachrasgar - The map of Adam Black, 1862, NLS
Related Places: See Croisgear, Kilmoluaig.
Information:The people had to leave Murdat in the spring of 1815 because of sand blow - SA 1974/134/A1. One of the townships to the west of Beinn Hough, evacuated because of erosion.
Local Form:
Languages : Norse, Gaelic
Keracrasagar and Keracrossagar are alternate spellings written in the 1780 tack betwixt John Duke of Argyll, and Hector McCualrie and Tenants of Kerranakeill and Keracrasagar.