Colbost
Colbost is the first of a straggle of tiny settlements on the Duirnish Peninsula in the northwest of Skye. The others are Totaig, Glendale, Lephin and Milovaig, then the road dead-ends.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: settlement on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Ceileabost”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skye, Dun Colbost and The Three Chimneys.
Skye, Dun Colbost
Archaeological site
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skye, Dun Colbost is an archaeological site.
The Three Chimneys
Restaurant
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Three Chimneys is a restaurant in Colbost, Isle of Skye, Scotland. While in operation beforehand, the restaurant came to prominence after being taken over around 1985 by Eddie and Shirley Spear.
Dun Fiadhairt
Archaeological site
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dun Fiadhairt is an Iron Age broch located on the north coast of the island of Skye, in Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glendale and Fasach.
Glendale
Village
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glendale is a community-owned estate on the north-western coastline of the Duirinish peninsula on the island of Skye and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Fasach
Hamlet
Fasach is a crofting settlement in Glendale on the Duirinish peninsula of the Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Totaig
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Totaig is a small crofting settlement on the west coast of Loch Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye. The village of Dunvegan is 5 miles southeast.
Colbost
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.4516° or 57° 27′ 6″ northLongitude
-6.6579° or 6° 39′ 29″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
9C9MF82R+JROpenStreetMap ID
node 413289888OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Colbost” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Colbost”
- Dutch: “Colbost”
- Irish: “Cealabost”
- Irish: “Ceileabost”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cealabost”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ceileabost”
- “Ceileabost”
- “Colbost”
- “Colbost - Ceileabost”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Colbost”. Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0.