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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "RAASAY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Applecross	Ross Shire	Raasay and Rona islands from the mainland, is known as Applecross Sound. A stream, some 10 miles long, flows south	Groome
  Ben Clachan	Ross Shire	parish, Rossshire, on the seaboard opposite the northern extremity of Raasay island. Its height is 2028 feet above the sea.	Groome
  Brochel Castle	Inverness Shire	Brochel Castle . ruins of ancient coast fortalice, Raasay island, Inverness-shire.	Bartholomew
  Fladda	Inverness Shire	Raasay Sound, 4 miles E of the nearest part of Sky, and 9 NE of Portree town. It measures 1½ by ½ mile	Groome
  Florida	Inverness Shire	Florida .-- island, Portree par., Inverness-shire, in Sound of Raasay, separated from RaasaybyKyle Flodda, pop. 54.	Bartholomew
  Glensligachan	Inverness Shire	Raasay island. ' Desolate Glensligachan, to which Glencoe is Arcady, ' in its upper reaches is all narrow and partly a gorge	Groome
  Hebrides or Western Islands	Scotland	Raasay, Scalpa, Longa, Pabbay, Soay, Canna, Rum, Eigg, and Muck, and a number of smaller islets. These are separated from	Groome
  Inverness	Inverness Shire	Raasay, Cana,-on the W. The number of vessels in this district, with their tonnage, has been, at various dates	Groome
  Inverness-shire	Inverness Shire	Raasay and the mainland, between Longa and Croulin Mhor, through Kyle-Akin, along Loch Alsh, and half-way up Kyle	Groome
  Portree	Inverness Shire	Raasay almost opposite the middle of the island of Raasay, and is 1½ mile wide at the mouth. From	Groome
  Portree	Inverness Shire	Raasay and Rona islands), 56,909 ac., pop. 3191; vil., on Portree Bay, 32 miles SW. of Strome Ferry, 60 miles	Bartholomew
  Raasay	Inverness Shire	Raasay House , seat; Raasay is separated from Skye island by the Sound of Raasay , which is from 1 to 5 miles	Bartholomew
  Raasay	Inverness Shire Ross Shire	Raasay House, at the Narrows of Raasay. From Applecross it is separated by the Inner Sound, 5¼ miles wide	Groome
  Rasay	Inverness Shire	Rasay , island, Inverness-shire. See RAASAY.	Bartholomew
  Rona	Inverness Shire Ross Shire	Raasay, 8½i miles NW of Applecross village, and 11½ NNE of Portree Extending 4¾ miles north	Groome
  Ross-shire	Ross Shire	Raasay and the mainland; strikes north-westward across the Minch and up Loch Seaforth (Lewis); curves across Lewis and Harris	Groome
  Scalpay	Inverness Shire	Raasay, 9½ miles SSW of Applecross, and 7½ W by N of Kyleakin. It is of an irregularly	Groome
  Skye	Inverness Shire	Raasay, the narrows of Raasay, and Loch na Cairidh, ½ mile wide, between Skye and Scalpay. At the SE end the last	Groome
  Snizort	Inverness Shire	Raasay, SE by Portree, SW by Bracadale, and W by Duirinish and Loch Snizort. Its utmost length, from N to S, is 15 miles	Groome

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