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Struan

Struan is a small village on the west coast of the island of Skye, on the shores of Loch Beag, itself an inlet of . "Struan" is the anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic word sruthan, meaning "small stream", or the flow at the point where a spring appears.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village on Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “An Sruthan” and “Struan, Skye”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dun Beag and Dun Ardtreck.

Building
Photo: Nessy-Pic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an iron-age broch located about 1 kilometre northwest of the village of Struan on the west coast of the island of Skye, in Scotland.

Archaeological site
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a D-shaped dun, or "semi-broch", located on the west coast of the island of Skye, in Scotland. is situated 1½ miles south of Struan.

Islet
Photo: Spike, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an uninhabited tidal island in on the west coast of , Scotland. It is c.1,000 metres long by 220m wide running approximately north-east to south west. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Struan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Balgown and Bracadale.

Hamlet
Photo: Tom Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet.

Hamlet
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a settlement and civil parish on the in . It lies on the west coast of the island, west-south-west of , on Loch Beag, an inlet off Loch Harport.

Hamlet
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet.

Struan

Latitude
57.35664° or 57° 21′ 24″ north
Longitude
-6.41614° or 6° 24′ 58″ west
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
Open location code
9C9M9H4M+MG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 413289877
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2636613
Wiki­data ID
Q975495
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Struan” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Struan”
  • Czech: “Struan”
  • Dutch: “Struan”
  • French: “Struan”
  • German: “Struan”
  • Irish: “An Sruthan”
  • Irish: “Sruthan”
  • Scots: “Struan, Skye”
  • Scots: “Struan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Sruthan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sruthan”
  • Slovak: “Struan”
  • Spanish: “Struan”
  • Swedish: “Struan, Skye”
  • Swedish: “Struan”
  • “Struan - An Sruthan”

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Highlights include Bracadale Free Church and Dun Diarmaid, Broch.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Struan”. Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.