Culkein
Culkein Stoer is a remote former fishing village, centred on the Bay of Culkein, in Assynt in Sutherland, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: M Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Culkein Stoer”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Old Man of Stoer and Stoer Head Lighthouse.
Old Man of Stoer
Cliff
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Old Man of Stoer is a 60-metre-high sea stack of Torridonian sandstone in Sutherland, Scotland, close to the villages of Culkein and Stoer and the nearby Stoer Head Lighthouse. It is a popular climbing route. Old Man of Stoer is situated 2 miles northwest of Culkein.
Stoer Head Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stoer Head Lighthouse was built on Stoer Head by brothers David and Thomas Stevenson in 1870 after being identified as one of forty-five sites in Scotland where a lighthouse was necessary to protect shipping. Stoer Head Lighthouse is situated 2 miles west of Culkein.
Eilean Chrona
Islet
Photo: Gerald England, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eilean Chrona is an islet, which is situated 2 miles east of Culkein.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stoer and Clachtoll.
Stoer
Village
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stoer is a crofting township in the parish of Assynt, Sutherland, in the Highlands of Scotland and in the council area of Highland. It is located about five miles north of the village of Lochinver. Stoer is situated 2½ miles south of Culkein.
Clachtoll
Village
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clachtoll is a coastal fishing and crofting village situated on the Bay of Clachtoll, in the ancient parish of Assynt, Sutherland county, in the Highland Council area on the north western edge of Scotland. Clachtoll is situated 3½ miles south of Culkein.
Culkein Drumbeg
Hamlet
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Culkein Drumbeg is a remote village on the north west coast of Scotland. It is located 0.93 miles north west of Drumbeg in Assynt, Sutherland, in the Highland council area. Culkein Drumbeg is situated 4½ miles east of Culkein.
Culkein
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.24073° or 58° 14′ 27″ northLongitude
-5.34659° or 5° 20′ 48″ westElevation
49 feet (15 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CKNOpen location code
9CCP6MR3+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 9051076867OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2651757Wikidata ID
Q2696503
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Culkein” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Culkein”
- Dutch: “Culkein”
- Irish: “An Cùl-cinn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Cùl-cinn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cùl-cinn”
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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 “Culkein”. Photo: M Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0.