Coigach
Coigach is a peninsula north of Ullapool, in Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. The area consists of a traditional crofting and fishing community of a couple of hundred houses located between mountain and shore on a peninsula looking over the Summer Isles and the sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: paddy heron, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 228 residents
- Description: peninsula in north-west Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Coigach Peninsula”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Isle Ristol and Loch Osgaig.
Isle Ristol
Island
Photo: W. L. Tarbert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Isle Ristol, the innermost of the Summer Isles in Scotland, is a Scottish Wildlife Trust Reserve. Lying roughly 12 miles north of Ullapool in Wester Ross, it is a tidal island, in Loch an Alltain Duibh, that is separated by a narrow channel from Old Dorney Bay. Isle Ristol is situated 2½ miles west of Coigach.
Loch Osgaig
Lake
Loch Osgaig is a small remote and deep freshwater loch, orientated on north-west to south-east axis, that is located 1 miles south of Enard Bay and 2 mile northeast of Achiltibuie and immediately north west of Loch Bad a' Ghaill. Loch Osgaig is situated 2 miles east of Coigach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Achnahaird and Polbain.
Achnahaird
Hamlet
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Achnahaird is a small settlement on Achnahaird Bay in Ross and Cromarty, in the Scottish council area of Highland. The beach at Achnahaird Bay was used in the filming of 'The Eagle'.
Polbain
Village
Photo: Ann Hodgson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Polbain is a remote crofting township, located on the north Badentarbat Bay on the west coast of Scotland, in western Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Altandhu
Village
Altandhu is a small hamlet, overlooking the sea loch, Loch an Alltain Duibh to the west, on the western shore of the Rubha Mor Peninsula, in the Achiltibuie area, in Ullapool, Ross-shire, Scotland, within the Scottish council area of Highland. Altandhu is situated 1½ miles west of Coigach.
Coigach
- Category: peninsula
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.05254° or 58° 3′ 9″ northLongitude
-5.37282° or 5° 22′ 22″ westPopulation
228Elevation
476 feet (145 metres)Open location code
9CCP3J3G+2VOpenStreetMap ID
node 1969828858OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
2652639Wikidata ID
Q3777389
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Serbo-Croatian—“Coigach” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Coigach”
- Dutch: “Coigach”
- Irish: “A‘ Chóigeach”
- Irish: “A’ Chóigeach”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Coigach”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Coigach”
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