Loch Kishorn
Loch Kishorn is a sea loch in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. Kishorn is a collective name used to refer to a group of populated settlements located next to the loch.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Loch Kishon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Plockton railway station and Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton.
Plockton railway station
Railway station
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Plockton railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Plockton in the Highlands, north-west Scotland. The station is 58 miles 22 chains from Dingwall, between Duncraig and Duirinish.
Duncraig railway station
Railway station
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Duncraig railway station is a remote railway station by the shore of Loch Carron on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, originally serving Duncraig Castle, a mansion near Plockton, in the Highland council area of northern Scotland. Duncraig railway station is situated 2 miles southeast of Loch Kishorn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plockton and Barleyport.
Plockton
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Plockton is a village on the west coast of Ross and Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 468 in 2020. In Scots slang a "plook" is a pimple, and The Plock is a small headland sheltering the harbour from the westerly weather.
Barleyport
Hamlet
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Port an Eòrna is the Scottish Gaelic name for the small settlement of Barleyport, situated almost midway between Plockton and the Kyle of Lochalsh, in Ross-shire, Scotland, in the Western Highlands. Barleyport is situated 2 miles south of Loch Kishorn.
Duirinish
Hamlet
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Duirinish is a hamlet in Lochalsh near Plockton in Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The hamlet is largely formed around the Allt Dhiuirnis river, which flows westward into the Inner Sound. Duirinish is situated 2 miles south of Loch Kishorn.
Loch Kishorn
- Category: body of water
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Loch Kishorn” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Loch Kishorn”
- Dutch: “Loch Kishorn”
- Irish: “Loch Ciseórn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loch Kishorn”
- Swedish: “Loch Kishorn”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Loch Kishorn”. Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.