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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:

“By the loch itself at the mouth of Callop River is Sgeir nan Ròn, known locally as Sgeir an Ròin, ‘skerry of the seal(s)’. No seals have been seen here recently but used to be seen in days gone by.”

Gaelic in the Landscape: The Rough Bounds of Lochaber (Scottish Natural Heritage 2013): 12

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