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Muldoanich

Uninhabited island in Scotland

Field	Value
coordinates
location_map	Scotland Outer Hebrides
caption	Muldoanich shown within the Outer Hebrides
Image	Vatersay - geograph.org.uk - 924275.jpg
ImageCaption	Muldoanich seen from Vatersay
GridReference	NL688940
celtic name	Maol Dòmhnaich
meaning of name	Duncan's rounded hill
area	78 ha
area rank	164=
highest elevation	Cruachan na h-àin, 153 m
Population	0
island group	Uist and Barra
local authority	Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
references

Muldoanich is an uninhabited island in the Barra Isles archipelago at the southern extremity of the larger island chain of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. It is 78 ha in area and rises to a maximum height of 153 m at the peak of Cruachan na h-àin ("midday hill").

Muldoanich is about 4 km southeast of Castlebay, the main port on the island of Barra. It is a prominent landmark for the approaching ferry and other craft and has no level ground. There are no census records, but the southern headland of Vanish (meaning "headland of the house" or "sacred place" in Gaelic) may indicate habitation at some time in the past.

Etymology

Muldoanich is covered in a luxuriant layer of deep moss.

The name "Muldoanich" is probably the anglicised version of the meaning "Duncan's rounded hill". It is shown with that name on Ordnance Survey maps. Mul Domhnach, meaning "Sunday island", is another possible derivation. Writing in the 16th century, Dean Munro referred to the island as "Scarp" and it appears as "Scarpa" on Blaeu's atlas of 1654.

Martin Martin refers to "Muldonish" in his 1695 voyage around the Western Isles, stating "about a mile in circumference; it is high in the middle, covered over with heath and grass, and is the only forest here for maintaining the deer, being commonly about seventy or eighty in number."

References

[http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/occpapers/occasional-paper-10.html "Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands"] {{webarchive. link. (2010-04-02 (28 November 2003) General Register Office for Scotland. Edinburgh. Retrieved 15 September 2007.)
{{Haswell-Smith. 216-218
"1:50,000". [[Ordnance Survey]].
"Pàrlamaid na h-Alba placenames".
[[Martin Martin. Martin, Martin]] (1703) "[http://www.appins.org/martin.htm ''A Description of The Western Islands of Scotland''] {{webarchive. link. (2007-03-13 . Appin Regiment/Appin Historical Society. Retrieved 3 March 2007.)

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