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Uig

Ùige

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Meaning

the bay


Settlement

Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

IV51

NG391634


English / Map Form: Uig

Gaelic Form: Ùige


Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides

Post Town: PORTREE

Postcode area: IV51

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

Nearest Main Roads: A87

English / Map Form: Uig

Gaelic Form: Ùige


Element Meaning

N vik ~ bay

Sources

?Inverweig 1596 RMS vi no. 453
Vyg 1654 Blaeu Map (Skye)
Uig, Uig 1776 Mackenzie: North part
Uig, Dwelly 1912
Uig, Uige, Ige, Wig the nook, An d-Uig, An Uig (locally) Forbes, 440
An Ùig, Drochaid an Ùig: Robertson: 199

Ùige, current road signs
Ùige, local informants 2021
Ùige, BBC Rèidio nan Gàidheal 2021

‘Ma tha neach an seo à Beàrnasdail, a Càrabost no Ùige’, Màiri Mhòr nan Òran c.1821-98
‘Nuair a thilleas mi do dh’Ùige’, Iain MacNeacail c.1903-99

Additional Information

See Oftedal 1954 no. 62 for further discussion of this name in a Norse context.

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