Map Reference: Soay 8
Name Type: shore
Meaning: The hidden anchorage
Other Forms: An Acarsaid Fhalach - AS
Acairseid Folaich - ONB
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Information:A small inlet on the west side of Loch Shothaigh, tucked behind a small promontory. A boat with its mast down would be well hidden from the sea and it is said that Tiree whisky smugglers would lie low there when an Excise cutter was in the vicinity. JH, 4/2013
Local Form:
Languages : GaelicInformants: Alasdair Sinclair, Brock, 6/1995
Informant 2: OS
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