Having just come back from Assynt, I've been discussing the area with a friend whose brother is a crofter there. She was telling me that she was trying to find out more about the meaning of Badnaban's translation 'place of women' which she understood related to the fact that there was a women's religious settlement there in the c 1500's. This settlement was separated from a men's settlement which was nearby, but she did not know precisely where it was located. She also said that she had seen a map in Crieff public library which showed only a handful of religious settlements in the 1500's in Scotland and that one of these was in the Lochinver area. Can anyone throw any light on this please? Are there any references to this that one can search? This may be something for Malcolm. TIA edward Limpsfield, Surrey Using Norton Anti-Virus 2003