Township: Scarinish

Map Reference: Scarinish 31

Name Type: shore

Meaning: The inlet of the weaveress - DK.

Other Forms: Port na Bainich - Port of the Woman Weaver, Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree, Hector MacDougall and Rev. Hector Cameron, Archibald Sinclair, p75.

Port na Banaich - ONB p175, with Port a' Mhanaich crossed out, meaning "Weaveress Bay."

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Languages : Gaelic

Informants: Donald Kennedy, Post Office, Scarinish, 10/1993

Informant 2: Duncan MacPhee, Scarinish, 8/1994