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Greenstone Point

Rubha na Cloiche Uaine


Coastal

Location

Ross and Cromarty

Highland

IV22

NG858983


English / Map Form: Greenstone Point

Gaelic Form: Rubha na Cloiche Uaine


Post Town: ACHNASHEEN

Postcode area: IV22

County: Ross and Cromarty

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Greenstone Point

Gaelic Form: Rubha na Cloiche Uaine


Sources

Row na Cloch muane c. 1591 Pont map 4
Row na Clach Uan 1747-55 Roy
Rudha na Cloiche uaine Robertson 2019, p. 170
Rudha na Cloiche uaine (roo na clorchoo-ownyer), Greenstone point: : J. H. Dixon, Gairloch and Guide to Loch Maree, p. xxxviii
Rudha na Cloiche uaine Watson 1904, p. 237
Rudha na Cloiche Uaine: Watson Ross and Cromarty, 1926, p. 46
Rudha na Cloiche Uaine: Scottish Place-name Survey material [Laid informant]
Rubha na Cloiche Uaine / Rudhna Clach Uaine (na Rudh na lic uaine): MacRobbie, Gaelic and Old Norse Topographical Coastal Names from Aultbea to Gruinard

Additional Information

This name was monolingually English on OS maps until 1960 when the form Rubha na Lice Uaine was introduced. The evidence however shows that clearly cloiche is the correct form.

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