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found himself more disposed to devotion tliere, than anywhere else.” It is 
a so to be presumed that the Chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary on one of 
tne bhiant Isles would have lent it additional sanctity in the mind of the 
people living within view of the group. 
Regarding the names of the separate islands we find them given in various 
pe iiijjS, lit the following are as nearly phonetically correct as possible, as 
1 am informed by ]\Ir. Blacpherson r > 
111 Maps. 
Garvaillon 
Wurry 
Akilly 
Correct Gaelic. Meaning. 
Garbh-eilean = The Rugged Isle 
[EileanJ-Mhuire = Mary’s Isle 
[Eilean]-a-chille = Isle of the Cell or Church 
hlr. Macpherson is of the opinion that Eileaii-Mliuire “was probably at 
one time he general name of the whole group, derived from the circum- 
stance of the dedication of the Chapel to the Virgin Mary on the island 
now known as Akilly or Eilean-a-chille. The name Wurrey or Wirrey must, 
ink, have been transferred in error to the island now so named, as it 
appears to have no separate title to the distinction.” 
J^mean-a-chiUe—ov the island of the Chapel-must have been Eilean 
Minnie- Wurry —or the Virgin Mary’s Island as well. To none of the 
rest as separate islands could, or can, it be correctly applied. 
‘“Eilean an Tigh,’— another name given to Eilean-a-chille, means The 
sland of the House, and House may mean either a modern shepherd’s hut, 
01 the rums of the old Chapel. The ‘ Eilan-na- Killy ’ of Macculloch is just 
as he has given it, -the Island of the Cell or Church ” 
“Ov'Sl- to group bear the names at present of 
tl p .<1 ^‘‘icpherson writes me that both of 
these have the appearance of Gaelic names: the former of course a 
s a ion in English of a name to which there was probably attached some 
legend, unless the rock bears some resemblance to a ‘ damh’ or ox The 
sTini 1- “""r? appearance and 
ound of good Gaelic. It is the Jiy something or other which Lewis men 
may be cpiite familiar with.” 
