Shiskine is a small village on the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. The village is within the parish of Kilmory. Sitting further up the "Shiskine Valley" from the village of Blackwaterfoot, the village takes its name from a corruption of the Gaelic for "marshy place". Shiskine is situated 4½ miles south of Auchencar.

Torbeg

Village

Torbeg is a village on the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. Torbeg is situated 4½ miles south of Auchencar.

Pirnmill

Hamlet

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The Isle of Arran is part of Ayrshire in southwest Scotland. It lies in the Firth of Clyde, the broad reach of sea southwest of Glasgow and enclosed by the Ayrshire coast to the east and the Kintyre peninsula to the west. Pirnmill is situated 5 miles north of Auchencar.

Auchencar

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.5778° or 55° 34′ 40″ north

Longitude

-5.34575° or 5° 20′ 45″ west

Elevation

95 feet (29 metres)

Open location code

9C7PHMH3+4P

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2007028021

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13276264

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