Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of place names in and around our area
In Inveran, An Sìthean or ‘place of the fairies’, was recorded as being a small enclosure of pasture situated over a mile north of Inveran farm. Nearby we find Sìthean Mòr, ‘the big fairy hill’, 1.5 miles north east of Invershin train station, which in turn has its own An Sìthean.
On the south east side of Claiseanglas in Spinningdale, there is Sìthean Dearg Mòr, the ‘big. . .