Port nam Mùrach
Port na Mùraich
Meaning
the port of the sand hill
Location
Inverness-shire
Highland
NM613836
English / Map Form: Port nam Mùrach
Gaelic Form: Port na Mùraich
Location: arisaig
Post Town: Lochailort
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Port nam Mùrach
Gaelic Form: Port na Mùraich
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
This name was gathered as part of a local research project on the place-names of the Rough Bounds of Lochaber and was published in a booklet by SNH and AÀA. The Following quote appears in that booklet:
“South of this is Port na Mùraich ‘port of the sand hill’ just south of Rhu Point. It is a beautiful little bay, facing Ardnamurchan Point, there is an unconfimed story that Port na Mùraich may have been an ancient graveyard.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: The Rough Bounds of Lochaber (Scottish Natural Heritage 2013): 30
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