Portnalong
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Portnalong () is a small village on north west of the Isle of Skye on the shore of Loch Harport. Portnalong is Gaelic for "harbour of the ships". It was founded by crofters from Lewis and Harris in 1921.
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- Locality
- Portnalong
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Portnalong
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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- Portnalong - geograph.org.uk - 1565918.jpg
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- Portnalong
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- Inverness-shire
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Portnalong () is a small village on north west of the Isle of Skye on the shore of Loch Harport. Portnalong is Gaelic for "harbour of the ships". It was founded by crofters from Lewis and Harris in 1921.
Portnalong and Fiskavaig are both crofting townships in the North Talisker common grazings where 69 crofters hold in common the sheep stock club that manages that commons.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Portnalong” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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