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Bun Bhacabhat Cave [1]

Outer Hebrides, Lewis, Butt of Lewis, Five Penny Ness, Sron Eite, Wester Ross.

Two sea caves marked on OS map on the south side of a small promontory north of Bun Bhacabhat. Cave [1] at NB 56497 56794. Cave [2] at NB 56511 56807.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Bun Bhacabhat (Bottom of the Bacabhat or Lake on the Slope) - On the Sea Shore, at the N.E. [North East] side of Cellar Head.

A small, but deep creek, on the shore of Seilar, with several high eater rocks in it. At low water there is a small beach seen on it. It is commanded by a large, steep, loose rocky cliff. [ScotlandsPlaces]

Feadan Bun Bhacabhat (the Pipe at the bottom of Bacabhat) - flows out of Loch Bacabhat Iorach (Lower Loch Bacabhat), on Cellar Head and falls into the sea at Bun Bhacabhat. A small stream, flowing out of Loch Bhacabhal Iorach, into Bun Bhacabhat, at which place it spreads as it flows down the Cliffs, and disappears. [ScotlandsPlaces]

Bacabhat from Old Norse - Bakkavatn: 'the lake of the gradient'. [Cox] Loch Bhacabhat Ard (Upper Loch Bacabhat) is to the south on the north slopes of Tom Loch Bhacabhat (Hill of Loch Bacabhat)