Duirinish Stone
Duirinish Stone is a monument in Highland Council, Scotland. Duirinish Stone is situated nearby to the cemetery St. Mary’s Kirkyard, as well as near Dunvegan Parish Church.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dunvegan Parish Church and Dunvegan Castle.
Dunvegan Parish Church
Church
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunvegan is a village on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It is famous for Dunvegan Castle, seat of the chiefs of Clan MacLeod. Dunvegan is within the parish of Duirinish. In 2011, it had a population of 386. Dunvegan Parish Church is situated 750 feet west of Duirinish Stone.
Dunvegan Castle
Photo: Klaus with K, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dunvegan Castle is located 1 mile to the north of Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland. It is the seat of the MacLeod of MacLeod, chief of the Clan MacLeod. Dunvegan Castle is situated 4,200 feet northwest of Duirinish Stone.
Dun Fiadhairt
Archaeological site
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dun Fiadhairt is an Iron Age broch located on the north coast of the island of Skye, in Scotland. Dun Fiadhairt is situated 2 miles northwest of Duirinish Stone.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dunvegan and Roag.
Dunvegan
Dunvegan is a small village on Skye in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, with a population of 386 in 2011. The main draw is the castle. Dunvegan is also a base for exploring Duirnish, the peninsula to the west.
Roag
Village
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roag, meaning noisy place or 'deer bay' in Norse, is a small remote scattered hamlet on the north west shore of Pool Roag in the west of the Duirinish peninsula. Roag is situated 2½ miles southeast of Duirinish Stone.
Colbost
Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Colbost is the first of a straggle of tiny settlements on the Duirnish Peninsula in the northwest of Skye. The others are Totaig, Glendale, Lephin and Milovaig, then the road dead-ends.
Duirinish Stone
- Type: Monument
- Category: historic site
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.43849° or 57° 26′ 19″ northLongitude
-6.57915° or 6° 34′ 45″ westOpen location code
9C9MCCQC+98OpenStreetMap ID
node 3670045081OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monument
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