Skipness
Tarbert is a village in Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland. An Tairbeart is a Gaelic term meaning "carry across", indicating an isthmus where small boats could be portaged from one body of water to another.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Patrick Mackie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skipness Castle.
Skipness Castle
Photo: Iwoelbern, Public domain.
Skipness Castle stands on the east side of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland, near the village of Skipness. Together with the nearby Kilbrannan Chapel it is a scheduled monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lochranza and Catacol.
Lochranza
Village
Photo: Markarianuk, Public domain.
The Isle of Arran is part of Ayrshire in southwest Scotland. It lies in the Firth of Clyde, the broad reach of sea southwest of Glasgow and enclosed by the Ayrshire coast to the east and the Kintyre peninsula to the west. Lochranza is situated 5 miles southeast of Skipness.
Catacol
Village
Photo: Wendy Kirkwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Catacol is a small village on the Isle of Arran, in the council area of North Ayrshire, Scotland. Catacol is situated 5 miles south of Skipness.
Whitehouse
Hamlet
Photo: Johnny Durnan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitehouse is a hamlet on the Kintyre Peninsula in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. It is located around 5.5 miles southwest of Tarbert and around 25 miles north of Campbeltown. Whitehouse is situated 6 miles west of Skipness.
Skipness
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.76682° or 55° 46′ 1″ northLongitude
-5.34777° or 5° 20′ 52″ westElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Open location code
9C7PQM82+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 10861387593OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Skipness” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Skipness”
- Dutch: “Skipness”
- French: “Skipness”
- German: “Skipness”
- Hebrew: “סקיפנס”
- Irish: “Sgibinis”
- Irish: “Sgibnis”
- Italian: “Skipness”
- Low German: “Skipness”
- Persian: “اسکیپنس”
- Russian: “Замок Скипнесс”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sgibinis”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sgibnis”
- Swedish: “Skipness”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Скіпнесс”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Skipness Village Hall and Dunan Breac, dun site.
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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 Wikivoyage page “Skipness”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.