Language Notes

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:

“Further along at Drinan is Geodha an t-Saighdeir, ‘the creek or cove of the soldier’. In the nineteenth century a soldier, having been dropped off by boat on his return from war, fell to his death as he walked home along the cliff-tops.”

Gaelic in the Landscape: Place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye (Scottish Natural Heritage 2015): 13

This place-name is not found on any maps.

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