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Baile a' Chaolais

English name: Ballachulish · Highland

Place-name meaning, origin and pronunciation

Meaning

“town of the strait”

Broken down
baile
↓
village, town
1 place name
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Nearby & related:
Baile na h-Eaglaise · KirkwallGleann Comhann · GlencoeAn Gearasdan · Fort WilliamSròn an t-Sìthein · StrontianLios Mòr · LismoreAn t-Òban · Oban

Sources

Meaning, etymology and pronunciation text is adapted from Wiktionary. The adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Coordinates and identifiers from Wikidata (CC0). Areas and map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.

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