Polphail
Polphail was a ghost village, located at Portavadie in Argyll & Bute, Scotland. Originally built in the 1970s, it was never occupied and was demolished in 2016.- Type: Locality
- Description: former planned village in Argyll, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Pollphail Village”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sgat Mòr and Sgat Beag.
Sgat Mòr
Islet
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sgat Mòr is an islet, which is situated 1½ miles south of Polphail.
Sgat Beag
Islet
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sgat Beag is an islet, which is situated 1½ miles southeast of Polphail.
Asgog Loch
Photo: Leslie Barrie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Asgog Loch is a natural freshwater loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is located about 4 kilometres southwest of Tighnabruaich, on the Cowal peninsula.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portavadie and Millhouse.
Portavadie
Village
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portavadie is a village on the shores of Loch Fyne on the coast of the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland. The Portavadie complex was built in 1975 by the then Scottish Office for the purpose of constructing concrete platforms for extraction of oil from the North Sea.
Millhouse
Village
Photo: Phil Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Millhouse is a village in the parish of Kilfinan. Located on the B8000 inland from Kames in the east and Portavadie in the west, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. Millhouse is situated 1½ miles northeast of Polphail.
Kames
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kames is a small village on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland, on the shore of the west arm of the Kyles of Bute. Kames is now part of a continuous coastal strip of housing that joins onto Tighnabruaich. Kames is situated 3 miles northeast of Polphail.
Polphail
- Category: former village
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
“Polphail” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Polphail”
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