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.Photo: M Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Assynt, Highland, Scotland
- Also known as: “An Cùl-Chinn”, “An Cùl-Cinn”, “Culkein Achnacarnain”, “Culkein Achnacarnin”, and “Culkein Stoer”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stoer Head Lighthouse and Eilean Chrona.
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.
Old Man of Stoer
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Achnacarnin and Clashmore.
Achnacarnin
Hamlet
Achnacarnin is a village on the headland of Point of Stoer in Lairg, Sutherland, within the Scottish local authority area of the Highland Council.
Clashmore
Hamlet
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clashmore is a scattered township in Assynt, in Sutherland, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is situated on the Rubha Stoer, 10 km north west of Lochinver, overlooking Loch na Claise.
Balchladich
Hamlet
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Balchladich is a remote township in the Assynt district of Sutherland, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Balchladich is situated 1½ miles south of Culkein.
Culkein
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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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Satellite Map
Discover Culkein from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Culkein” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Culkein”
- Breton: “An Cùl-Chinn”
- Cornish: “An Cùl-Chinn”
- Dutch: “Culkein”
- Irish: “An Cùl-Chinn”
- Irish: “An Cùl-cinn”
- Irish: “Cùl-Chinn Achadh nan Càrnan”
- Irish: “Cùl-Chinn an Stòir”
- Manx: “An Cùl-Chinn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Cùl-Chinn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Cùl-cinn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Cùl-Cinn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cùl-Chinn Achadh nan Càrnan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cùl-Chinn an Stòir”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cùl-Chinn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cùl-cinn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Culkein Achnacarnin”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Culkein Stoer”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Culkein”
- Welsh: “An Cùl-Chinn”
- Welsh: “Culkein”
- “An Cùl-Chinn”
- “An Cùl-Cinn”
- “Culkein”
- “Culkein - An Cùl-Chinn”
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