Garbh Eileach

Garbh Eileach
Location
Garbh Eileach
Garbh Eileach shown within Argyll and Bute
OS grid reference NM665115
Names
Gaelic name Garbh Eileach
Meaning of name rough rocky mound
Area and summit
Area 142 hectares (0.55 sq mi)
Area rank 128=
Highest elevation 110 m
Population
Population 0
Groupings
Island group Garvellachs
Local Authority Argyll and Bute
References [1][2][3][4]
If shown, area and population ranks are for all Scottish islands and all inhabited Scottish islands respectively. Population data is from 2001 census.

Garbh Eileach is an uninhabited island in the Inner Hebrides of the west coast of Scotland. It is the largest of the Garvellachs and lies in the Firth of Lorne between Mull and Argyll.

The name is Gaelic for 'rough rocky mound'. The Anglicised version of the name gives the whole group of islands its name, the Garvellachs.

There is a small ruined fort above a bay on the eastern coast.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ 2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland
  2. ^ Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 1841954543. 
  3. ^ Ordnance Survey
  4. ^ Iain Mac an Tailleir. "Placenames". Pàrlamaid na h-Alba. http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/gaelic/pdfs/placenamesF-J.pdf. Retrieved 2007-07-28. 
  5. ^ Pallister, Marian (2005) Lost Argyll: Argyll's Lost Heritage. Edinburgh. Birlinn. Page 133.