Westland Skelly

Westland Skelly CRA C NO614070 1 364 0m

Westland Skelly 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn

Sc west + Sc land + Sc skelly

Sc skelly ‘skerry, a ridge of rock on the seashore, usually covered at high water’.[124] It refers to rocks immediately beside West Ness, both of which lie ‘west’ of the burgh and harbour. See also West Ness CRA.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 3