English / Map Form: Gaskan
Gaelic Form: An Gasgan
Location: Lochailort
Post Town: Glenfinnan
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Gaskan
Gaelic Form: An Gasgan
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This name was gathered as part of a local research project on the place-names of the Rough Bounds of Lochaber and was published in a booklet by SNH and AÀA. The Following quote appears in that booklet:
“Finally we turn around at Gaskan or An Gasgan a narrow strip of land meaning ‘the fih’s tail’ from its shape.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: The Rough Bounds of Lochaber (Scottish Natural Heritage 2013): 18
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