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Isleornsay
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Isleornsay (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Iarmain) is a village lying off the main Armadale to Sleat road (the A851) on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It overlooks, but is not upon, the island of Ornsay. The island itself shelters one of the best natural harbours in southern Skye. The location was exploited from the 18th century or earlier by the MacDonalds who owned this part of Skye.
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- Instance of
- hamlet
- Official name
- Eilean Iarmain
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Sleat
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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- Isleornsay.jpg
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- native label
- Eilean Iarmain
- located in/on physical feature
- Isle of Skye
- historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Commons category
- Isleornsay
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Isleornsay (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Iarmain) is a village lying off the main Armadale to Sleat road (the A851) on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It overlooks, but is not upon, the island of Ornsay. The island itself shelters one of the best natural harbours in southern Skye. The location was exploited from the 18th century or earlier by the MacDonalds who owned this part of Skye.
There is a hotel in the village called the Isle Ornsay Hotel and a local company Pràban na Linne founded by Iain Noble which produces a vatted malt whisky called Poit Dhubh (literally the "Black Pot" or "Illicit Still" and two blends, Té Bheag nan Eilean ("small dram of the islands") and Mac na Mara (the "Son of the Sea").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Isleornsay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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