Doire nam Poll

Doire nam Poll is a forest in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Doire nam Poll is situated near the locality Fairy Dell, as well as near Hutton’s Unconformity.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Lochranza Castle and Torr Meadhonach.

Lochranza Castle

Castle

Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lochranza Castle is an L-plan fortified tower house situated on a promontory in Lochranza, on the northern part of the Isle of Arran in Scotland. Most of the current structure was built in the 16th century.

Torr Meadhonach

Peak

Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Torr Meadhonach is a hill 332 metres high at the northernmost part of the Isle of Arran in western Scotland, east of the village of Lochranza.

Lochranza distillery

Distillery

Photo: paul birrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lochranza distillery is a whisky distillery in Lochranza, Scotland, on the Isle of Arran. It primarily releases its whisky under the Arran name. In 1994 Arran Distillers Ltd. was founded by Harold Currie, former director of Chivas and a D-Day veteran, with the intention of building a distillery on Arran.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lochranza and Catacol.

Lochranza

Village

Photo: Markarianuk, Public domain.

The Isle of Arran is part of Ayrshire in southwest Scotland. It lies in the Firth of Clyde, the broad reach of sea southwest of Glasgow and enclosed by the Ayrshire coast to the east and the Kintyre peninsula to the west.