Ornsay

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For other places with the same name, see Oronsay.

Ornsay
Location
Ornsay Ornsay shown relative to Skye
OS grid reference	NG709125
Names
Gaelic name	Eilean Iarmain
Norse name	Örfirirsey
Meaning of name	"Ebb (i.e. tidal) island", from Norse
Area and summit
Area	c. 35 ha
Highest elevation	46 m
Population
Population	0
Groupings
Island group	Inner Hebrides
Local Authority	Highland

References	^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Ornsay is a small tidal island to the east of the Sleat peninsula on the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

Description

Widely acknowledged as one of the most beautiful tidal islands in Western Scotland,^{[citation needed]} the island provides good shelter to a natural harbour which is overlooked by the village of Isleornsay. The "Ornsay" lighthouse stands on the neighbouring islet, Eilean Sionnach.^[5]

Footnotes

↑ 2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland
↑ Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
↑ Ordnance Survey
↑ Iain Mac an Tailleir. "Placenames". Pàrlamaid na h-Alba. Retrieved 2007-07-27.
↑ "Overview of Isleornsay". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 2007-07-27.

v t e Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board

Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry Corsewall Covesea Skerries Crammag Head Davaar Duncansby Head Dunnet Head Fidra Fife Ness Girdle Ness Holy Island (Outer) Inchkeith Isle of May Kinnaird Head Mull of Galloway Mull of Kintyre North Rona Noss Head Pladda Rattray Head Rubh Re St Abbs Head Sanda Scurdie Ness Stoer Head Strathy Point Stroma Sule Skerry Tarbat Ness Turnberry Minor lights

The Hebrides	Barra Head Butt of Lewis Dubh Artach Eilean Glas Flannan Islands Haskeir Hyskeir Lismore Monach Neist Point Ornsay Rinns of Islay Rona Ruvaal Scarinish Skerryvore Tiumpan Head Ushenish Minor lights

Orkney	Auskerry Brough of Birsay Cantick Head Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Minor lights

Shetland	Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Hoo Stack Lighthouse Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights

Isle of Man	Chicken Rock Douglas Head Langness (minor light) Maughold Head Point of Ayre Thousla Rock (minor light)

Coordinates: 57°8′48″N 5°47′12″W / 57.14667°N 5.78667°W / 57.14667; -5.78667

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