Creag an Leabhair
Creag an Leabhair
Meaning
the crag of the book
Location
Inverness-shire
Highland
NG687243
English / Map Form: Creag an Leabhair
Gaelic Form: Creag an Leabhair
Location: Breakish
Post Town: Isle of Skye
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Creag an Leabhair
Gaelic Form: Creag an Leabhair
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:
“Creag an Leabhair, ‘the crag of the book’, is a distinctive hummock at the end of the Broadford airstrip around which Abhainn Aisig runs. Tradition has it that this was used as a pulpit by Saint Maol Rubha. Maol Rubha was an Irish monk who founded a monastic community in Applecross, Wester Ross. The name is also recorded as Leac (slab) instead of Creag (crag) or Creagan (n)an Leabha(i)r, ‘the crags of the book’ or ‘books’.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: Place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye (Scottish Natural Heritage 2015): 36
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Additional Information
Creagan an Leabhair, the crags of the book
Creagan nan Leabhar, the crags of the books
Leac an Leabhair, the slab of the book