MacLeod from Raasay

[Dalet]

I have recently downloaded census records for my Macleod family

Can anyone tell me the location they were living at it looks like LECH or LECK is this a location on Raasay

Thanks Dale

[ev]

hi 

freeCEN transciption has it as "lock rasay" but it looks like lech rasay
before this entry the addresses are "kyle of rona" , after it is "ferns rasay"
so possibly the north end of raasay 

ev

[ev]

in the 1851 census(freeCEN) looks like the family are at "hallaig"
on a map this is on the east side of raasay near a point called rubha na' LEAC
to the south of this is north fearns/south fearns
so if they did not move perhaps hallaig is the place your after

ev

[Dalet]

Thank you for your help.

The family were from around Hallaig, which would fit in with your information

Would anyone know what these 2 place names mean

Rubha na Leac

Beinn na Leac

Dale

[GMac78]

As far as I know Leac is roughly stone ledge, beinn is mountain or hill and Rubha is a headland or point

[Dalet]

Thank you Gmac and others.

That makes complete sense to me

Dale

[Skoosh]

Leac=a flat stone!.....Skoosh.

[RSMACL]

My husband John Murdo MacLeod has ancestors from Hallaig, Isle of Raasay,
Scotland: -
Torquil McLeod b. c.1774, married to Christina McLennan, who I think was from somewhere in Wester Ross.   Known children Anne McLeod, b. 20 Sept. 1801,  Malcolm McLeod b. 8 APRIL, 1804, both in Hallaig. 
Malcolm married Chirsty McLean, also of Hallaig, and their children were Murdoch, 1827, Anne, 1832, Mary 1834, John 1837/8, Malcolm 1843. My husband is directly descended from Murdoch on his father's side, and from McDonalds on his mother's side.  Any connection or info.?

[Donald G]

Leac is a very steep-sided area and the story was that children were tethered there by their parents to prevent them going over the cliffs. It was one of the areas cleared in the early 1850s. There are very few signs left today but there is a big enclosure so I suppose the stones from the cleared houses were used to construct that just as they were at Hallaig where there is a massive sheep enclosure.

There were 6 tenants and 1 cottar in 1851 but they had all been cleared by 1854.