Bracadale
Bracadale is a settlement and civil parish on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It lies on the west coast of the island, west-south-west of Portree, on Loch Beag, an inlet off Loch Harport.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dun Beag and Dun Ardtreck.
Dun Beag
Building
Photo: Nessy-Pic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dun Beag is an iron-age broch located about 1 kilometre northwest of the village of Struan on the west coast of the island of Skye, in Scotland.
Dun Ardtreck
Archaeological site
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dun Ardtreck is a D-shaped dun, or "semi-broch", located on the west coast of the island of Skye, in Scotland. Dun Ardtreck is situated 2 miles southwest of Bracadale.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balgown and Struan.
Struan
Village
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Struan is a small village on the west coast of the island of Skye, on the shores of Loch Beag, itself an inlet of Loch Bracadale. "Struan" is the anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic word sruthan, meaning "small stream", or the flow at the point where a spring appears.
Bracadale
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.36062° or 57° 21′ 38″ northLongitude
-6.40842° or 6° 24′ 30″ westElevation
49 feet (15 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB RCDOpen location code
9C9M9H6R+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 1323398098OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2655020Wikidata ID
Q2258259
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Bracadale” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bracadale”
- Dutch: “Bracadale”
- French: “Bracadale”
- Irish: “Bracadal”
- Irish: “Bràcadal”
- Scots: “Bracadale”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bracadal”
- Swedish: “Bracadale”
- “Bracadal”
- “Bracadale”
- “Bracadale - Bracadal”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dun Diarmaid, Broch and Bracadale Free Church.
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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 “Bracadale”. Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.