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.’