Map Reference: Middleton 5
Name Type: shore
Meaning: The beach of the loan word from ON gil > ScG gil (see above), in the plural ‘gullies’
Other Forms: ONB p. 207 gives Tràigh nan Gilean, meaning "beach of the jaws. (white stones crossed out)."
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Languages : Norse, GaelicInformants: OS
Informant 2: Bailtean is Ath-Ghairmean, Niall M Brownlie, Argyll Publishing, 1995, p 156
Informant 3: multiple
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