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This name was gathered as part of a local research project on the place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye and was published in a booklet by SNH and AÀA. The Following quote appears in that booklet:

“Somewhere round Strollamus is a well called Tobar na Cloinne, that is, ‘the well of the children’. It is said that a woman who goes there and repeats the following words will become the mother of twins:

Uisg’ an Easain air mo dhosan

Tog dhiom do rosad

’S aoigh fir an cabhaig orm,

Water of the little falls on my forelock

Lift me from your curse

and speed a male visitor to me.”

Gaelic in the Landscape: Place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye (Scottish Natural Heritage 2015): 48

This place-name is not found on any maps.

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