Township: Hynish

Map Reference: Hynish i

Name Type: building

Meaning: Hynish store

Other Forms:

Related Places:

Information:Doan also had a coal store in Hynish where Alan Stevenson House is today. Alasdair Mor MacArthur, Balemartine, 6/2008.

Alan Stevenson built a store on the second floor of one of the workshops, 'to secure the [provisions] from the needy Celts and innumerable rats which overrun that part of Tiree.' Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse by Alan Stevenson, 1848, 103
Now Alan Stevenson House.

Local Form:

Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Lachlan MacFarlane, Hynish,11/1995