English / Map Form: Fireach Clach
Gaelic Form: Fireach Clach
Location: Heaste
Post Town: Isle of Skye
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Fireach Clach
Gaelic Form: Fireach Clach
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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:
“Fireach Clach is the highest spot on the old road to Heaste just next to Tobar an Ruaidh. Fireach means an ascending slope, or hill ground.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: Place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye (Scottish Natural Heritage 2015): 32
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