Township: Kenovay

Map Reference: Kenovay 9

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Meaning: The two fairy hillocks

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Information:'Two hundred yards to the north-west [of Dun Cheann a' Bhaigh] are two grassy mounds, certainly artificial and certainly sepulchral - named 'Da Sithean', or 'the two fairy knolls'. Of these, the larger is about 5 feet high and24 feet in diameter, the smaller measuring 3 feet high by 15 in diameter. Neither of these is complete, soil having been removed from both.' - EB

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Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Ernest Beveridge 1903, 'Coll and Tiree', page 108