The name is an anglicised version of Thulain or 'a stony place under the hill' (from the Guide to Isle of Eigg Postcard Maps). Here there were black houses when cattle were farmed before sheep took over.
Uploaded to Geograph by Jim Barton on 22 June 2017
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