Loch Cheallair, General

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Recorded parish

Kilninver and Kilmelford

What is recorded here

Map note: Loch Cheallair, General is recorded near Kilmelford, Argyll and Bute, Scotland as a dam. There is no need to invent a lost kingdom to make the name interesting.

From the Historic Environment Scotland record 257263

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• Patrick Mackie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Alan Reid, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Colin Chambers, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• David Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Graeme Yuill, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Andrew Wood, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Richard Sutcliffe, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• M J Richardson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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