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.
