English / Map Form: Sanntaig
Gaelic Form: Sanndaig
Location: Arisaig
Post Town: Lochailort
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Sanntaig
Gaelic Form: Sanndaig
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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:
“We now cross to Sandaig or Sanndaig on the Loch nan Uamh coast. Now the only sign of this on maps is the burn Allt Sanntaig. This was where Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair died in 1770. He lies in the graveyard of St. Maol Ruadh in Arisaig. It is not possible to identify the last home of Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair as his house, which was made of turf, collapsed after his death.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: The Rough Bounds of Lochaber (Scottish Natural Heritage 2013): 34
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