Township: Hynish

Map Reference: Hynish a

Name Type: shop

Meaning: MacQuarrie's shop

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On the ground floor of the Lower Square Barracks, nearest the sea. He lived above it - JMcK.

'A Store will be kept at the works by the Lighthouse Board, from which provisions will be served out at stated periods...sold to the workmen at the cost prices at which the stores are laid in. Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse by Alan Stevenson, 1848, 75

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Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Jessie MacKinnon, Mannal, 5/1994