Gairloch
Gairloch is a straggling community along the west coast of Ross and Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 620 in 2020. The land is hilly and farming isn't very productive, but shellfishing remains a traditional occupation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roger McLachlan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Dmacle2179, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gairloch Museum.
Gairloch Museum
Museum
Photo: Macfack, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gairloch Museum is an independent museum in the Wester Ross region of Scotland. The museum is located in the Highland village of Gairloch, in Achtercairn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Badachro.
Badachro
Village
Photo: Sarah Charlesworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Badachro is a former fishing village, in the northwest Highlands of Scotland. Badachro is situated 2½ miles southwest of Gairloch.
Gairloch
- Type: Village with 610 residents
- Description: village in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.728° or 57° 43′ 41″ northLongitude
-5.6903° or 5° 41′ 25″ westPopulation
610Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GAROpen location code
9C9PP8H5+6VOpenStreetMap ID
node 25299525OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Gairloch” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Gairloch”
- Breton: “Gairloch”
- Catalan: “Gairloch”
- Cebuano: “Gairloch”
- Chinese: “盖尔洛赫”
- Chinese: “蓋爾洛赫”
- Dutch: “Gairloch”
- French: “Gairloch”
- German: “Gairloch”
- Irish: “Geárrloch”
- Irish: “Geàrrloch”
- Italian: “Gairloch”
- Japanese: “ゲイロッホ”
- Scots: “Gairloch”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Geàrrloch”
- Spanish: “Gairloch”
- Swedish: “Gairloch”
- Welsh: “Gairloch”
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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 “Gairloch”. Photo: Dmacle2179, CC BY-SA 3.0.