English / Map Form: Beinn Lora
Gaelic Form: Beinn Laoighre
Location: Benderloch ~ Meadarloch
Post Town: Oban ~ An t-Òban
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Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Beinn Lora
Gaelic Form: Beinn Laoighre
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Sources
“O bheinn Aile gu beinn Laoire” line from a poem named ‘Diarmad’ in ‘Sean dana’ 1787.
“we still have Beinn-Laoire in the immediate neighbourhood” 1870 Dissertation on the authenticity of the poems of Ossian, p. xliv, anonymous.
Falls of Lora = Sruth Laoighre n[ear] it Beinn Laoighre: Watson notebooks (from A. Carmichael)
“Lora is Ossianic and modern”: Gillies, Place-names of Argyll
The ridge of mountains running between Loch Etive and Loch Crearan ends in ‘Beinn Laoire: “Deirdire, and the Lay of the children of Uisne, orally collected in the island of Barra [Scotland, in 1867] and literally translated by Alexander Carmichael” [the form Beinn Laoire is only mentioned in the notes at the end and not in the actual Gaelic text]
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