Kensaleyre
Kensaleyre is a scattered crofting township, part of a group of settlements clustered around the A87 road on the shore of Loch Snizort Beag on the Trotternish peninsula of the island of Skye in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Snizort on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Ceann Sàil Eighre”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kensaleyre Church and Dun Cruinn.
Dun Cruinn
Archaeological site
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dun Cruinn is a prehistoric site about 10 kilometres north-west of Portree, on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. It is on the Skerinish Peninsula, between Loch Snizort Beag and Loch Eyre.
Skeabost House Hotel, Skye
Hotel
Photo: Malcolm Manners, CC BY 2.0.
Skeabost House Hotel, Skye is situated 2 miles south of Kensaleyre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eyre and Keistle.
Eyre
Village
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eyre is a settlement on the eastern shore of Loch Snizort Beag on the northern coast of Skye in Scotland. The two Eyre standing stones are situated next to Loch Eyre. It is said that there was once a third stone here, although there is now no trace.
Kensaleyre
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.48287° or 57° 28′ 58″ northLongitude
-6.30412° or 6° 18′ 15″ westElevation
154 feet (47 metres)Open location code
9C9MFMMW+49OpenStreetMap ID
node 546930001OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Kensaleyre” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kensaleyre”
- Dutch: “Kensaleyre”
- Irish: “Ceann Sàil Eighre”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ceann Sail Eighre”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ceann Sàil Eighre”
- Swedish: “Kensaleyre”
- “Ceann Sàil Eighre”
- “Kensaleyre”
- “Kensaleyre - Ceann Sàil Eighre”
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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 “Kensaleyre”. Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.