Township: Kilmoluaig

Map Reference: Kilmoluaig 46

Name Type: watercourse

Meaning: An Loch Fada: The long loch - he suggests where peats may have been dug at one time - IMcK. When the ditch was dammed to store up water for the mill, the loch grew in length

Loch na Lèige - the loch of the ditch, which was dug, presumably, for the construction of the new Cornaigmore mill in 1802

Other Forms: An Loch Fada - IMcK

Loch Nalaig: The Turnbull Map of Tiree 1768 and accompanying survey text.

Related Places: Gàrradh an Tòrraidh 'tòrradh as 'embankment of a dam' (Dwelly) at north end

Information:
There were stepping stones between An Loch Fada and Loch Stanail - IMcK.

The most northerly of the three lochs

Local Form:

Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Iain MacKinnon (Iain Chaluim), Kilmoluaig, 1/1994

Informant 2: The Turnbull Map of Tiree 1768 and accompanying survey text.