Orasay
Orasay is an islet in Western Isles, Scotland. Orasay is situated nearby to the village Locheport, as well as near Clachan.Places of Interest
Highlights include Pobull Fhinn and Barpa Langass.
Pobull Fhinn
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pobull Fhinn is a stone circle on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. The name is Gaelic. The first word has been variously spelt as pobull, poball, pobul or as plural pobuill.
Barpa Langass
Archaeological site
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barpa Langass or Langass Barp is a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It measures around 22 meters in diameter by 5.5 meters in height, and is around 5,000 years old.
Carinish School
School building
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carinish School is a school building, which is situated 2½ miles southwest of Orasay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Locheport and Carinish.
Carinish
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carinish, is a hamlet on North Uist, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. It is in the south of the island, about two miles from the causeway to Benbecula. Carinish is situated 2½ miles south of Orasay.
North Uist
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North Uist is an island in the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It measures 20 miles north-south, 25 miles east-west, and is separated from Benbecula to the south by a tidal ford, nowadays bridged by a causeway.
Orasay
- Type: Islet
- Also known as: “Orasaigh”
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.55674° or 57° 33′ 24″ northLongitude
-7.29306° or 7° 17′ 35″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
9C9JHP44+MQOpenStreetMap ID
way 361729476OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
13286349
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