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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:

“Loch Slapin is Loch Slaopan but for grammatical reasons the River Slapin is Abhainn Shlaopain. One would say of a heavy drinker ‘Dh’òladh e Loch Slaopan’, ‘he would drink Loch Slapin dry’.”

Gaelic in the Landscape: Place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye (Scottish Natural Heritage 2015): 24

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