Map Reference: Scarinish f
Name Type: building
Meaning: The byre of Nonnie or Sandy
Other Forms: Bàthach Nònaidh - DMcC
Bàthach Shandaidh - DC
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Information:The Gaelic Otherworld, ed Ronald Black, p699:
Helen Margaret Maclean [daughter of Jean or Jane MacLean, sister of Rev John Gregorson Campbell - p689] was born on 27 October 1870 and Johanna Gregorson Campbell Maclean on 28 June 1878, both in the farmhouse at Scarinish; they had a sister Mary Graham Maclean born 9 July 1872, who appears not to have survived. The byre at Scarinish called Bàthach Nonaidh was presumably named after Johanna, who was known to everyone as Nonnie.
The structure south of Taigh Mairi Chladaich. Nònaidh was the daughter of Sandy MacLean She taught at Scarinish school. He remembers her - DMcC.
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Languages : GaelicInformants: Donald MacCallum, Scarinish, 6/1994
Informant 2: Duncan Cameron, Scarinish, 8/2013
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