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Kilbraur

Cill Bràthar


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Sutherland

Highland

NC823100


English / Map Form: Kilbraur

Gaelic Form: Cill Bràthar


Location: Brora

Post Town: Brora

County: Sutherland

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Kilbraur

Gaelic Form: Cill Bràthar


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Kilnabraar 1548 RMS iv 241
Kilmabrair 1563 RSS v 1463
Kilnabrair 1564 RSS v 1704
Kilnabrayr x 2 1566 Sutherland Charters 103 [Culnabrayr in OPS 667]
Kilnabrair 1566 RSS v 2718

Kilbrar: G. cill-brathair, the cill or cell of the brother (monk), a culdee, where he located himself on a beautiful site, amongst a large population: MacKay, 1892, 339
Cill-Bràthar Robertson Collection MS359a, 78
‘the Brethren’s Church,’…. Cill nam Bràthair Watson 1926, 273

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