English / Map Form: Uig
Gaelic Form: Ùig
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: Ùig
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
Additional Information
See Oftedal 1954 no. 62 for further discussion of this name in a Norse context.