Killen
Killen is a small remote rural hamlet, located 2 miles northwest of Avoch and Fortrose, in the Black Isle, Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Killen, Highland”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Avoch and Fortrose and Rosemarkie.
Avoch
Village
Photo: Julian Paren, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Avoch is a harbour-village located on the south-east coast of the Black Isle, on the Moray Firth. Avoch is situated 2½ miles southeast of Killen.
Fortrose and Rosemarkie
Photo: nathanandrewbaker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fortrose and Rosemarkie are two small towns a mile apart on the Black Isle in Easter Ross in the Scottish Highlands. In 2020 Fortrose had a population of 1680 and Rosemarkie had 640.
Fortrose
Town
Photo: nathanandrewbaker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fortrose is a town and former royal burgh on the Black Isle in the Highland council area of Scotland, about six miles northeast of Inverness. The town is known for its ruined 13th-century cathedral, and as the home of the Brahan Seer. Chanonry Point, a nearby headland projecting into the Moray Firth, is a popular location for dolphin spotting. Fortrose is situated 3 miles east of Killen.
Killen
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.59415° or 57° 35′ 39″ northLongitude
-4.21307° or 4° 12′ 47″ westOpen location code
9C9QHQVP+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 27285147OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q6407423
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Killen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Killen”
- Danish: “Killen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Killen”
- Swedish: “Killen, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Killen”
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