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Eilean Shona House. Loch Moidart, guarded by Castle Tioram, is of historical significance in Scotland. [8] The region was the seat of the Macdonalds of Clanranald, territory from where Charles Edward Stuart gained much of his support for the Jacobite uprising in 1745. [9]
Rockall is a small rocky islet in the North Atlantic which was declared part of Scotland by the Island of Rockall Act 1972. [8] [9] However, despite no possession by any other state and other precedents, the legality of the claim is disputed by the Republic of Ireland, Denmark and Iceland, and some say it may be unenforceable in international law.
Its unusual shape (for Scotland) may mean that it was either a lighthouse for the harbour, or heavily influenced by Irish architecture. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when Portpatrick was an important ferry port for passengers, postal mail and freight between Ireland and Scotland, the village was described as the Gretna Green for Ireland.
A map of the divisions of Roman Britain with the Scoti shown as a tribal grouping in the north of Ireland. Scotia is a Latin placename derived from Scoti, a Latin name for the Gaels, [1] first attested in the late 3rd century. [1] The Romans referred to Ireland as "Scotia" around 500 A.D.
Leurbost (Scottish Gaelic: Liùrbost [ˈʎuːrpɔs̪t̪]) is a village on the east coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It is approximately 6 miles (10 kilometres) south of Stornoway on the road to Harris. It is the main settlement in the area of the island known as North Lochs.
The Mull of Kintyre is the southwesternmost tip of the Kintyre Peninsula (formerly Cantyre) in southwest Scotland.From here, the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland is visible on a calm and clear day, and a historic lighthouse, the second commissioned in Scotland, guides shipping in the intervening North Channel.
Old section of A75 east of Carrutherstown, close to Braehill Oak Wood, in 2007. It is now a bypassed local road. The mostly single-carriageway road has been re-aligned, re-routed and bypasses most towns in recognition of the heavy freight traffic it carries between the A74(M)/M6 and the ferry ports for Northern Ireland at Cairnryan.
Waves in Ballycastle; Scotland can be seen in the background. There were several incidents of what came to be known as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, including: Loyalist paramilitaries left a car bomb outside the Roman Catholic church (St. Patrick's & St. Brigid's) in the town on 26 August 1973. It was timed to explode as massgoers left the ...