Place:


Coomb Island Sutherland

 

Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Coomb Island. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
COOMB ISLAND GBHGIS Great Britain Historical GIS Project (, ).
EILEAN NA COOMB John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
EILEAN NA COOMB OR EILEAN NA NAOIMH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
EILEAN NA NAOIMH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
ELLAN NA COOMB F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
ELLAN NA COOMB OR ELLAN NA NAOIMH F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
ELLAN NA NAOIMH F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

    • Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Coomb Island, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.

    How to reference this page:

    GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Coomb Island, in Highland and Sutherland | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.

    URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/27008/names

    Date accessed: 06th June 2024