English / Map Form: Lochan Cruinn
Gaelic Form: Lochan Cruinne
Location: Breakish
Post Town: Isle of Skye
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Lochan Cruinn
Gaelic Form: Lochan Cruinne
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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:
“Lochan Cruinn is a small loch above Skulamus and is known locally as Lochan Cruinne, ‘small round loch’.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: Place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye (Scottish Natural Heritage 2015): 20
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