Buaile nan Caorach
A’ Bhuaile Chàrnach
Meaning
the stony fold
Location
Inverness-shire
Highland
NG644164
English / Map Form: Buaile nan Caorach
Gaelic Form: A’ Bhuaile Chàrnach
Location: Heaste
Post Town: Isle of Skye
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Buaile nan Caorach
Gaelic Form: A’ Bhuaile Chàrnach
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
This name was gathered as part of a local research project on the place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye and was published in a booklet by SNH and AÀA. The Following quote appears in that booklet:
“At the back of the school in Heaste is A’ Bhuaile Chàrnach, ‘the stony fold’.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: Place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye (Scottish Natural Heritage 2015): 42
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