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Creise

A’ Chrèise


Upland

Location

Argyll & Bute

Highland

NN238506


English / Map Form: Creise

Gaelic Form: A’ Chrèise


Location: Bridge of Orchy

Post Town: Bridge of Orchy

County: Argyll & Bute

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Creise

Gaelic Form: A’ Chrèise


Language Notes

 

Sources

Na Crèisean: Robertson [headform is Sròn na Creise]

Creisean = deer fat… Creisean is only Matheson’ s name for the 3600 point, not MacLaren’ s. Coire: R. Burn diary

Aired nan Creisein – the heights of Creisen: 1862, A treatise on the language, poetry, and music of the Highland clans, 10 [poetry]

Additional Information

Munro M050, 1100m

In the poem of “Nic Coiseam,” the place names are mostly outside Glen Etive. “Na creisean ” is a steep rocky face beyond Dalness.

Nearby is Sròn na Creise. There would appear to be more than one point called Creise with the range called Na Crèisean, this peak is one of them.

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