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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 651467
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/651467
NC86NE 4 8821 6540.
(NC 8821 6540) Tobat Malaig (NAT)
OS 25"map, (1974)
St Malie is commemorated in a well, Tobat Malaig, below Melwich. This is probably Mairie, one of the Figg Martyrs, for Mairie naturally develops into Malie in accordance with the Gaelic emphony.
A MacKay 1914.
This well, still known locally as 'Tobat Malaig', is a natural spring which issues through a small revetment of dry-stone walling at the foot of a slope.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 7 November 1972.
No change to previous field report.
Visitedby OS (J M) 7 July 1977.
