Islay
Islay is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, with a population of 3,228 in 2011. It's mostly low-lying grazing land and heath, with Port Ellen and Bowmore the main settlements.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 3,460 residents
- Description: southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Isle of Islay”, “Queen of the Hebrides”, and “The Queen of the Hebrides”
- Postal codes: PA42, PA43, PA44, PA45, PA46, PA47, PA48, and PA49
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Islay House and Loch Skerrols.
Islay House
Hotel
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Islay House is a Category A listed country house near Bridgend, Islay in the county of Argyll, in western Scotland on the shores of Loch Indaal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bowmore and Bridgend.
Bowmore
Town
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Bowmore is a small town on the Scottish island of Islay, situated on the banks of the sea loch, Loch Indaal. It serves as administrative capital of the island, and gives its name to the noted Bowmore distillery producing Bowmore single malt scotch whisky.
Bridgend
Village
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Bridgend is a village on the Inner Hebrides island of Islay off the western coast of Scotland at the tip of Loch Indaal. The village is within the parish of Killarow and Kilmeny.
Ballygrant
Village
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Ballygrant is a small village on the Inner Hebrides island of Islay of the western coast of Scotland. The village is within the parish of Killarow and Kilmeny.
Islay
- Category: island
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Islay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Islay”
- Arabic: “إيلاي”
- Basque: “Islay”
- Belarusian: “Айла”
- Belarusian: “Айлей”
- Breton: “Ìle”
- Catalan: “Islay”
- Cebuano: “Islay”
- Central Kurdish: “ئایلا”
- Chinese: “艾拉岛”
- Chinese: “艾拉島”
- Czech: “Islay”
- Danish: “Islay”
- Dutch: “Islay”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايسلاى”
- Esperanto: “Islay”
- Esperanto: “Reĝino de la Hebridoj”
- Estonian: “Islay”
- Finnish: “Islay”
- French: “Islay”
- Galician: “Islay”
- German: “Islay”
- Greek: “Άιλα”
- Hebrew: “איילה”
- Hungarian: “Islay”
- Indonesian: “Islay”
- Irish: “Ìle”
- Italian: “Islay”
- Italian: “Regina delle Ebridi”
- Japanese: “アイラ島”
- Javanese: “Islay”
- Korean: “아일러”
- Latin: “Ila insula”
- Lithuanian: “Aila”
- Livvi: “Ìle”
- Low German: “Islay”
- Macedonian: “Ајла”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Islay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Islay”
- Norwegian: “Islay”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Islay”
- Persian: “آیله”
- Polish: “Islay”
- Portuguese: “Islay”
- Russian: “Айла (остров)”
- Russian: “Айла”
- Russian: “Айлей”
- Russian: “А́йлей”
- Scots: “Ila”
- Scots: “Islay”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ìle”
- Serbian: “Ајлеј”
- Serbian: “Острво Ајлеј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Islay”
- Slovak: “Islay”
- Slovenian: “Islay”
- Spanish: “Islay”
- Spanish: “La reina de las Hebridas”
- Spanish: “La reina de las Hébridas”
- Sundanese: “Islay”
- Swedish: “Islay”
- Tamil: “இஸ்லே”
- Thai: “ไอเลย์”
- Turkish: “Islay”
- Ukrainian: “Айла”
- Ukrainian: “Айлей”
- Welsh: “Ìle”
- Western Panjabi: “ازلے”
- Wu Chinese: “艾拉岛”
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