Breun Oban
Breun Oban is a bay in Western Isles, Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eilean na Cille and Wiay.
Eilean na Cille
Islet
Photo: W. L. Tarbert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eilean na Cille, south east of Benbecula is an island of the Outer Hebrides connected to Grimsay by a causeway which carries the B891. The road was built to service the pier at Peter's Port, which was constructed in 1896 at cost of £2,000 – although the anchorage is awkward and should not be used without local knowledge.
Wiay
Island
Photo: W. L. Tarbert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wiay is an uninhabited island in the Outer Hebrides. It lies south-east of Benbecula and measures approximately 375 hectares. The island is very flat with fertile ground and sandy beaches to the west whilst the east is predominantly peat moorland with a rocky coastline incorporating many small islands and inlets.
Borve Castle
Castle
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Borve Castle, also known as Castle Wearie, and Caisteal Bhuirgh in Scottish Gaelic, is a ruined 14th-century tower house, located at the south-west of the island of Benbecula, in the Western Isles of Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Benbecula and Iochdar.
Benbecula
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Benbecula is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, with a population of 1300 in 2021. The name is a medieval mispronunciation: "pen" meaning flat land turned into "ben" for mountain, which it doesn't have.
Iochdar
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Iochdar, also spelled Eochar, is a hamlet and community on the west coast of the island of South Uist, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Iochdar is also in the parish of South Uist.
Balgarva
Hamlet
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Balgarva is a crofting settlement on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Balgarva is within the parish of South Uist.
Breun Oban
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.4072° or 57° 24′ 26″ northLongitude
-7.3033° or 7° 18′ 12″ westOpen location code
9C9JCM4W+VMOpenStreetMap ID
node 11310240932OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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