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.