Kilbrannan Sound
Kilbrannan Sound is a marine water body in the west of Scotland. It separates the Kintyre Peninsula from the island of Arran. Kilbrannan Sound is the western arm of the lower Firth of Clyde.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: C Michael Hogan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Leslie Barrie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Strait
- Description: sound in between Kintyre and Arran, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Kilbrennan Sound” and “Killbrannan Sound”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Airds Castle.
Airds Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Johnny Durnan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Airds Castle is a ruined medieval castle near Carradale, Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The castle held a position on the summit of a rocky headland between Carradale harbour and the bay of Port Righ, looking across Kilbrannan Sound to the Isle of Arran.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pirnmill and Grogport.
Pirnmill
Hamlet
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.
Grogport
Hamlet
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grogport is a hamlet in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies on the coast of Kintyre, on the Kilbrannan Sound, across from Pirnmill on the Isle of Arran.
Saddell
Hamlet
Photo: Hchc2009, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saddell is a small Scottish village situated on the east side of the Kintyre Peninsula of Argyll and Bute, overlooking the Kilbrannan Sound and the Isle of Arran, 8 miles from Campbeltown on the B842 road to Carradale.
Kilbrannan Sound
- Categories: sound and body of water
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.60034° or 55° 36′ 1″ northLongitude
-5.41326° or 5° 24′ 48″ westOpen location code
9C7PJH2P+4MOpenStreetMap ID
way 931842309OpenStreetMap feature
natural=straitGeoNames ID
2645709Wikidata ID
Q1741235
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Kilbrannan Sound” goes by many names.
- Breton: “An Caolas Branndanach”
- Breton: “Kilbrannan Sound”
- Catalan: “Kilbrannan Sound”
- Cebuano: “Kilbrannan Sound”
- Chinese: “基尔布兰南海峡”
- Chinese: “基爾布蘭南海峽”
- Galician: “Kilbrannan Sound”
- German: “Kilbrannan-Sund”
- Japanese: “キルブラナン水路”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kilbrannan”
- Slovenian: “Kilbrannan Sound”
- Swedish: “Kilbrannan Sound”
- Welsh: “Swnt Kilbrannan”
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