English / Map Form: Rabbit Islands
Gaelic Form: Eilean nan Gall
Post Town: LAIRG
Postcode area: IV27
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Rabbit Islands
Gaelic Form: Eilean nan Gall
Element Meaning
island of the strangers or lowlanders
Sources
‘ylen na-gaild or Lowlandmens yle’ Pont map 1 front
‘Eilean nan Gall, originally Islands of Strangers’ 1906 Ferchur Leighich The Celtic Review, vol. 2, No. 7 (Jan., 1906), pp. 246-255 [Gaelic poem dated to c. mid 19th C]
Additional Information
This is referred to as ‘Rabbit Islands or Eilean nan Gaill’ on some OS maps.
