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Sgurr na Banachdich

Sgùrr na Banachdaich


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Inverness-shire

Highland

IV47

NG440224


English / Map Form: Sgurr na Banachdich

Gaelic Form: Sgùrr na Banachdaich


Post Town: ISLE OF SKYE

Postcode area: IV47

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Sgurr na Banachdich

Gaelic Form: Sgùrr na Banachdaich


Sources

‘Sgurr na Banachdich, a Bhanachdaich. Small-pox peak; so-called after the corry, it is believed, from the marked, or pitted, appearance of the rocks from oxidation; more correctly “vaccination” peak, or the whitening or purifying; locally “Banaraich” and “Bànanaich,” said to be in use, “the dairymaid.”‘Forbes, 325

Sgùrr na banachaig [also banachdach – from a story of the t[..] of the in[..]cultation t[..] smallpox…]: Watson notebook CW375

Sgurra na Banachdaich: Sorley MacLean, ‘An Cuilitheann’.

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Munro M190, 965m

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