Loch Borve
| Loch Borve Loch Bhuirgh |
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 Loch Borve beyond Borve settlement as seen from Borve Hill |
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| Waters | Berneray Sound | |
| Land mass | Berneray | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 42 '25 " N , 7 ° 11' 45" W | |
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| width | approx. 500 m | |
| depth | approx. 600 m | |
Loch Borve ( Gaelic : Loch Bhuirgh ) is a bay on the south coast of the Scottish Hebridean island of Berneray . It is located on the Berneray Sound , a narrow waterway between the islands of Berneray in the north and North Uist in the south. A few hundred meters to the northeast is the Borve settlement in front of Borve Hill . Loch Borve cuts into the island about 600 m deep in a north-westerly direction and has a maximum width of about 500 m. The bay is very shallow and largely silted up. A short stream, the outflow of Loch Beag Bhuirgh , flows into Loch Borve.
A few hundred meters east of the bay, the Berneray Causeway embankment leaves the island in the direction of North Uist. Signs of the remains of a dun have been found on a rocky cape on the south east coast of Loch Borve . However, nothing more is known about this.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ^ Annales Hydrographiques , Paul Dupont, Paris, 1862, p. 253.
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Entry on Borve Dunan in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
