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Big Sand

Sannda Mhòr

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Location

Ross and Cromarty

Highland

NG753792


English / Map Form: Big Sand

Gaelic Form: Sannda Mhòr


Location: Wester Ross, Highland

Post Town: GAIRLOCH

County: Ross and Cromarty

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Big Sand

Gaelic Form: Sannda Mhòr


Language Notes

ON en sannda + nom. sg. adj. mòr, fem. ‘big’

Element Meaning

ON sannda ~ sand; G mòr ~ big

Sources

Sandecorran 1566 Retours (Ross) no. 3
Sandechorane 1569 Retours (Ross) no. 4
Sandcarrane 1638 Retours (Ross) no. 87
Sanda 1654 Blaeu Map (Northern Scotland)
Sandicaron 1673 Retours (Ross) no. 130
Sandicarron 1697 Retours (Ross) no. 162
Sanda 1747-55 Roy

Sanda 1820 Thomson
Great Sands 1857 Admiralty

Chart 2509

Sannda a’ chorrain Robertson MS 357, 234
Sannda Mhor Watson 1904, 227
Sannda Mhòr Wentworth
Sannda Mhòr Hulme 2007
Sannda Mhòr Fraser 2009

Sand (sand, or saunda)… The full name of the place called Big Sand is Sanda a
chorran Dixon 1886, xxxix

Additional Information

This was evidently once called Sannda a’ Chorrain, ‘Sannda of the spit of land.’

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