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Cuan

Cuan

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Argyll & Bute

Argyll & Bute

NM755145


English / Map Form: Cuan

Gaelic Form: Cuan


Location: Seil, Firth of Lorn, Argyll

Post Town: OBAN

County: Argyll & Bute

Local Authority: Argyll & Bute

English / Map Form: Cuan

Gaelic Form: Cuan


Language Notes

Cuan (no article, but Caolas a’ Chuain has one): JM

Element Meaning

G nom. sg. masc. art. an + G nom. sg. cuan, ‘ocean’

Sources

?Cowun 1804 Langlands
Cuan 1875-80 Os 6inch 1st edn.

Additional Information

There is nearby Ballachuan on Seil. On Luing is another Ballachuan (called Balechonluing Blaeu map Lorne 1654 and Ballechuanlung on Dorret 1750). Cuan is not mentioned on Admiralty Chart 2326 from 1856.

It would appear the area around Cuan sound was called Cuan, perhaps with reference to the area of sheltered sea between Torsa, Luing and Seil. Nb the irish sense of this word, which is ‘bay’.

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