Cnoc Conain Mingulay Inverness-shire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Note about Croc-Coinein, 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/63
Scope and Contents
Note collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay about Croc-Coinein [or Cnoc Conain], that old houses stood there, that it is a 'sandy rocky stony place covered with sea-holly' and describing the colour of the sea-holly.
Dates:
1867
Notes on Miulay, 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/48
Scope and Contents
Notes on Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] describing its bay as 'of an ampitheatre form...like an old-fash[ioned] military saddles (sic)'. Croc Conain and Creagan rua [Cnoc Conain, Creagan Ruadh] are noted as where the houses 'stood of old when the plauge (sic) came' adding 'Creag na h-aoinaig and Biola creag [Bual na Creige] are the same.'
Dates:
1867