Duirinish
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bert Kaufmann, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: settlement in Lochalsh, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Duirinish, Lochalsh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Duirinish railway station and Plockton railway station.
Duirinish railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Duirinish railway station is a remote railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line near the settlement of Duirinish in the Highlands, northern Scotland.
Plockton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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
Photo: Sexy Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 northeast of Duirinish.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Drumbuie and Barleyport.
Drumbuie
Hamlet
Drumbuie is a settlement situated less than 1 mile southwest of Duirinish in Lochalsh, Scottish Highlands and is in the council area of Highland. The fishing hamlet of Erbusaig is located less than one mile to the southwest.
Barleyport
Hamlet
Photo: Chris MacKenzie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Plockton
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Duirinish
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.31853° or 57° 19′ 7″ northLongitude
-5.67945° or 5° 40′ 46″ westElevation
118 feet (36 metres)Open location code
9C9P889C+C6OpenStreetMap ID
node 4827329037OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Duirinish” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Duirinish”
- Dutch: “Duirinish”
- Irish: “Diúirinis, Loch Aillse”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Diùrinis”
- Welsh: “Duirinish”
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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 “Duirinish”. Photo: Bert Kaufmann, CC BY 2.0.