Catacol
Catacol is a small village on the Isle of Arran, in the council area of North Ayrshire, Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wendy Kirkwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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
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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. Lochranza distillery is situated 2 miles east of Catacol.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lochranza and Pirnmill.
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. Pirnmill is situated 4 miles southwest of Catacol.
Skipness
Village
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tarbert is a village in Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland. An Tairbeart is a Gaelic term meaning "carry across", indicating an isthmus where small boats could be portaged from one body of water to another. Skipness is situated 5 miles north of Catacol.
Catacol
- Type: Village
- Description: village in North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.69587° or 55° 41′ 45″ northLongitude
-5.3261° or 5° 19′ 34″ westElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
9C7PMMWF+8HOpenStreetMap ID
node 9395586408OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Catacol” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Catacol”
- Dutch: “Catacol”
- French: “Catacol”
- Irish: “Catagal”
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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”. Photo: Wendy Kirkwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.