Abriachan

Abriachan, is a village in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is situated high above the western shore of Loch Ness, 15 km to the south-west of the city of Inverness.

Photo: David Maclennan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Moniack Mhor.

Moniack Mhor

Building

Moniack Mhor is a creative writing centre in Scotland. Based in the Scottish Highlands, Moniack Mhor is fourteen miles from Inverness. The centre is a registered charity and is supported by Creative Scotland. Moniack Mhor is situated 2½ miles northwest of Abriachan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dores and Strone.

Dores

Village

Photo: Zenit, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dores is a village located on the east shore of Loch Ness, 10 km south west of the city of Inverness, in the Highland council area of Scotland. The now defunct RockNess music festival used to take place in fields to the north of the village. Dores is situated 2½ miles east of Abriachan.

Strone

Hamlet

Strone is a small hamlet in the administrative county of the Scottish Highlands and in the historic county of Inverness-shire. It is adjacent to the well-known Urquhart Castle, which is itself located on Strone Point, a headland extending into Loch Ness. Strone is situated 4½ miles southwest of Abriachan.

Drumnadrochit

Photo: Immanuel Giel, Public domain.

Drumnadrochit is a village in the Great Glen, the fault line that traverses the Scottish Highlands. With a population of 1130 in 2020, it stands on the west shore of Loch Ness at the outlet of the River Enrick.

Abriachan

Type: Village
Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
Categories: human settlement and locality
Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.38481° or 57° 23′ 5″ north

Longitude

-4.40107° or 4° 24′ 4″ west

Elevation

846 feet (258 metres)

Open location code

9C9Q9HMX+WH

OpenStreetMap ID

node 481663926

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

6458622

Wikidata ID

Q2009809

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“Abriachan” goes by many names.

Basque: “Abriachan”
Dutch: “Abriachan”
Hausa: “Abriachan”
Irish: “Obar Itheachan”
Scottish Gaelic: “Obar Itheachan”
Urdu: “ابری اکن”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Abriachan Village Hall and Carn na Leitire.

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