Catacol Bay
Catacol Bay is a small shallow-curved tidal, 310° facing, rocky coastal embayment located on the northwest tip of the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, within the council area of North Ayrshire in Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lochranza Castle and Lochranza distillery.
Lochranza Castle
Castle
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lochranza Castle is an L-plan fortified tower house situated on a promontory in Lochranza, on the northern part of the Isle of Arran in Scotland. Most of the current structure was built in the 16th century.
Lochranza distillery
Distillery
Photo: paul birrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lochranza distillery is a whisky distillery in Lochranza, Scotland, on the Isle of Arran. It primarily releases its whisky under the Arran name. In 1994 Arran Distillers Ltd. was founded by Harold Currie, former director of Chivas and a D-Day veteran, with the intention of building a distillery on Arran.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Catacol and Lochranza.
Catacol
Village
Photo: Wendy Kirkwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Catacol is a small village on the Isle of Arran, in the council area of North Ayrshire, Scotland.
Lochranza
Village
Photo: Markarianuk, Public domain.
The Isle of Arran is part of Ayrshire in southwest Scotland. It lies in the Firth of Clyde, the broad reach of sea southwest of Glasgow and enclosed by the Ayrshire coast to the east and the Kintyre peninsula to the west.
Pirnmill
Hamlet
The Isle of Arran is part of Ayrshire in southwest Scotland. It lies in the Firth of Clyde, the broad reach of sea southwest of Glasgow and enclosed by the Ayrshire coast to the east and the Kintyre peninsula to the west.
Catacol Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
- Category: body of water
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.69147° or 55° 41′ 29″ northLongitude
-5.33266° or 5° 19′ 58″ westElevation
436 feet (133 metres)Open location code
9C7PMMR8+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1274020085OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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Satellite Map
Discover Catacol Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Catacol Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Catacol Bay”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bàgh Chatagail”
- Swedish: “Catacol Bay”
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Explore places such as Fairhaven and Coillemore.
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Highlights include Choc Leacainn Duibhe and Meall nan Leac Sleamhuinn.
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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 “Catacol Bay”. Photo: Ritchyblack, FAL.