Kilbrannan Sound

Kilbrannan Sound
	View across Kilbrannan Sound from Arran to Kintyre
Connects waters	Firth of Clyde
with water	Loch Fyne and Kyles of Bute
Separates land mass	Isle of Arran
of land mass	Kintyre (peninsula)
	Data
Geographical location	55 ° 35 ′ N , 5 ° 26 ′ W Coordinates: 55 ° 35 ′ N , 5 ° 26 ′ W
length	32 km
Smallest width	13 km

The Kilbrannan Sound , outdated and Kilbrandon , is the western arm of the estuary Firth of Clyde in Scotland . The name is derived from the Irish saint Brendan , who traveled to the Western Isles in 545.

The waterway runs essentially in a north-south direction and separates the island of Arran in the east from the Kintyre peninsula . It has a length of 32 km and a maximum width of 13 km. In the north the Kilbrannan Sound runs out into the inlets Loch Fyne and Kyles of Bute , in the south it branches off from the Firth of Clyde. Campbeltown Loch to the south is the largest bay in Kilbrannan Sound.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Kilbrandon or Kilbrennan Sound. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 4: (Har - Lib). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1885, p. 357.
^ Kilbrannan Sound. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .

[groome-1] Kilbrandon or Kilbrennan Sound. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 4: (Har - Lib). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1885, p. 357.

[2] Kilbrannan Sound. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .