Loch Breachacha
Loch Breachacha is a bay in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland. Loch Breachacha is situated nearby to the locality Glac Shilisteir, as well as near the hamlet Uig.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Breachacha crannog and Breachacha Castle.
Breachacha crannog
Archaeological site
The Breachacha crannog is a crannog located near Loch Breachacha, on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll. The crannog is designated as a Scheduled monument.
Breachacha Castle
Castle
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Breachacha Castle is either of two structures on the shore of Loch Breachacha, on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll, Scotland. The earlier is a 15th-century tower house that was a stronghold of the Macleans of Coll, the island having been granted to John Maclean in 1431.
Coll Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coll Island Airport is located 5 NM west southwest of Arinagour on the island of Coll in the Inner Hebrides. Highland Airways who originally operated the route to Oban went into administration in 2010, but a new operator, Hebridean Air Services now operates the route under a PSO with flights to Oban and Tiree using Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander aircraft.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Acha and Coll.
Coll
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coll is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It's about 12 miles long by 3 miles wide and in 2011 had a population of 195, mostly in the ferry port of Arinagour.
Arinagour
Village
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Arinagour is a village on the island of Coll, in the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland. It is the main settlement on the island, and the location of the island's ferry terminal. It has a population of around 50.
Loch Breachacha
- Type: Bay
- Also known as: “Loch Breac achadh” and “Loch Breacacha”
- Category: body of water
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.58431° or 56° 35′ 4″ northLongitude
-6.62485° or 6° 37′ 30″ westElevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
9C8MH9MG+P3OpenStreetMap ID
node 4798998427OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
2654841
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Localities in the Area
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