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’.
Additional Information
Munro M190, 965m