Geodha nam Faochag

Places of Interest

Harlosh Island

Island

Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Harlosh Island is one of four islands to be found in Skye's Loch Bracadale. Harlosh Island is one mile from the coast of the Duirinish Peninsula and four miles from the coast of the Minginish peninsula.

Oronsay

Islet

Photo: Spike, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Oronsay is an uninhabited tidal island in Loch Bracadale on the west coast of Skye, Scotland. It is c.1,000 metres long by 220m wide running approximately north-east to south west.

Tarner Island

Island

Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Tarner Island is a triangular shaped island in Loch Bracadale just off the coast off the Harlosh peninsula of Skye in Scotland. It is about 28 hectares in extent and is 0.65 miles at its longest by 0.33 miles at its widest The coastline is largely cliff-lined and rocky however slopes down to the northernmost part of the island at which point it is possible to land by small boat or kayak.

Places in the Area

Carbost

Photo: Chmee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Carbost is a small village straggling along the shore of Loch Harport in Skye, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. The main reason to come here is the Talisker Distillery.

Bracadale

Hamlet

Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bracadale is a settlement and civil parish on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It lies on the west coast of the island, west-south-west of Portree, on Loch Beag, an inlet off Loch Harport.

Struan

Village

Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Struan is a small village on the west coast of the island of Skye, on the shores of Loch Beag, itself an inlet of Loch Bracadale. "Struan" is the anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic word sruthan, meaning "small stream", or the flow at the point where a spring appears.

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