Map Reference: Ruaig 69
Name Type: machair
Meaning: Hillock of the bags
See Bags in Longships on the Sand.
Other Forms: Bags, Baggs or Bagaidhean - unknown meaning - Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree, Hector MacDougall and Rev. Hector Cameron, Archibald Sinclair, p126.
Never heard of Baggs - AMcL
Cnoc nam Bagaichean - AMcL, MMcI
Sackhill - multiple
Related Places:
Information: They used to plant potatoes north of the house and the bags were put on this hillock - MMcI.
Sackhill, Cnoc nam Bagaichean, was so-called because they used to plant potatoes north of the house, towards the fang, and used to dry the hessian potato bags on the fences. Margaret MacInnes, 10/2008.
Local Form:
Languages : GaelicInformants: Angus MacLean, Scarinish, 12/1995
Informant 2: Margaret MacInnes, Sackhill, 2/1994
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