Blàr na Caillich' Buidhe
Blàr na Caillich' Buidhe
Meaning
the field of the yellow old woman
Location
Inverness-shire
Highland
NM683903
English / Map Form: Blàr na Caillich' Buidhe
Gaelic Form: Blàr na Caillich' Buidhe
Location: Morar
Post Town: Mallaig
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Blàr na Caillich' Buidhe
Gaelic Form: Blàr na Caillich' Buidhe
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Sources
This name was gathered as part of a local research project on the place-names of the Rough Bounds of Lochaber and was published in a booklet by SNH and AÀA. The Following quote appears in that booklet:
“On the banks of Loch Morar is a bog called Blàr na Caillich’ Buidhe. This has a tradition associated with it. There is the story recorded1 of ‘The Last Raid that Took Place in Morar’. Included within the text of the tale there is the story of two women who were murdered and pushed into a peat bank close to a hillock by two men who were in a party of sixty hiding in the woods on a’ Chreag Mhòr at Sunisletter. This took place on Mòinteach Mhòr, ‘the big moor’ (between Arisaig and Loch Morar). This story involves Aonghas nan Corc, and therefore took place sometime after 1520.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: The Rough Bounds of Lochaber (Scottish Natural Heritage 2013): 36
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