Local history 

Gaelic place names

Camuscross Community Steering Group was set up in February 2006, to work on developments for the benefit of the community of Camuscross and surrounding areas.  The group has been researching local history and has collected a number of place names from local people.  They mounted an exhibition of what they have collected so far at an Open Day on March 1^st 2008, when five more names were added to the place name collection.

The crofts and the hill grazings of Camuscross are much smaller than those of townships in surrounding areas; it is thought that the landlord deliberately made the crofts small so that the crofters had to earn additional income by fishing.  It is interesting that a lot of the place names which are still known are connected to the shore.

If you have any new place names to add to the list, or any stories or local history about the area, please contact the group at: enquiries@camuscross.org

List of place names (Word doc)