visual poem: place names of coastal features around the shoreline of the Island of Coll
shore 90 x 90cm ( dibond/matt ultra)
Translation of coastal feature names from Am Faclair Beag (Scottish Gaelic dictionary incorporating Dwelly)
Acarsaid: anchorage harbour port haven
Airne: kidney drift seed sea-bean blackthorn slow berry
Ard / aird: high lofty tall great loud chief eminent superior supreme height promontory
Bàgh: bay harbour creek estuary promise bond tie strength power virtue word battle cove
Barr: superiority pre-eminence apex crest crown summit tip top zenith surface crop produce
cream (milk product) height (hill ) son (poetic)
Bogha: bow bend arch arc vault green bow-shaped area by a river crotch fork breech
sunken rock in sea rock over which waves break
Caolas: firth strait narrow(s)
Carraig: rock cliff pinnacle knot of wood timber ball cockroach headland promontory
cra(i)g fishing rock/ledge/station
Corr: odds excess surplus overplus remainder snout bill horn end corner limit
extremity extra rounded and/or tapered point rostrum pinboard of a harp pointed
Leac: flagstone slab flat stone tombstone metal plate slate to write on declivity cheek
summit of a hill ledge of rock jutting out from the foot of a cliff on the foreshore and covered by the sea at flood tides house tile soldier (in architecture)
Lòn: meadow lawn small brook marsh morass pond lakelet water mud marshy meadow pond pool tidal pools
Meall: lump mass heap of earth hill eminence great shapeless hill mound knob boss bunch cluster pile clot round hill (rain)shower bout
Poll: hole pit deep mire mud bog pond pool deep stagnant water dark and deep part of any stream wet miry meadow nostril silt peat bank/hag pit
Port: port harbour ferry passage strait firth gate fort garrison bank area of a place house common food door bay tune dock port (in computing)
Rubha:
promontory headland point of land
Sgeir: semi-submerged rock skerry peat-bank cliff sharp flinty rock covering top layer as of cold porridge or of fat/ soup
Sloc: pit den hollow cavity dell hold hole grave dungeon pool gutter ditch marsh plough shaft crater trough (of a wave) clamp (for vegetables)
Torr: heap up pile up hoard form into heaps teem bury come alive
mass mound pile tip loose pile of peats on the peat bank/hag hill mountain
Tràigh: seashore beach exposed at low water shore of a lake or river reflux or ebbing of the tide sandy beach strand
Uamha: den cave hollow grave grotto cavern
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