Craighouse
Craighouse is the main settlement and capital of the Scottish Inner Hebridean island of Jura, in Argyll and Bute. In 1971 it had a population of 113. The village is situated on the sheltered east coast of the island at the southern end of Small Isles Bay, on the Sound of Jura.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jura distillery.
Jura distillery
Distillery
Jura distillery is Island single malt Scotch whisky distillery located on the island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides off the West Coast of Scotland. The distillery is operated by Whyte & Mackay, which Philippines-based Alliance Global owns.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Isle of Jura and Port Askaig.
Isle of Jura
Photo: Bjarne Henning Kvaal…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jura is an island in the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. It's 30 miles long by 7 miles wide, with a population of only 196 in 2011. It has poor boggy soil and three conical hills known as the Paps of Jura.
Port Askaig
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Port Askaig is a port village on the east coast of the island of Islay, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The village lies on the Sound of Islay across from Jura. Port Askaig is situated 6 miles west of Craighouse.
Craighouse
- Type: Village with 113 residents
- Description: capital of Jura, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.83332° or 55° 49′ 60″ northLongitude
-5.95076° or 5° 57′ 3″ westPopulation
113Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)Open location code
9C7PR2MX+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 270417674OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2652136Wikidata ID
Q1018742
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Craighouse” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Craighouse”
- Cebuano: “Craighouse”
- Dutch: “Craighouse”
- French: “Craighouse”
- German: “Craighouse”
- Irish: “Taigh na Creige”
- Italian: “Craighouse”
- Polish: “Craighouse”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Craighouse”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Taigh na Creige”
- Slovenian: “Craighouse”
- Spanish: “Craighouse”
- Swedish: “Craighouse”
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Highlights include Jura Hall and Small Isles Bay.
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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 “Craighouse”. Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.