Portnahaven

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Portnahaven
Scottish Gaelic Port na h-Abhainne
Buildings in Portnahaven
Buildings in Portnahaven
Coordinates 55 ° 41 ′  N , 6 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 41 ′  N , 6 ° 30 ′  W
Portnahaven (Scotland)
Portnahaven
Portnahaven
Residents 150 (1991 census)
administration
Post town ISLE OF ISLAY
ZIP code section PA46
prefix 01496
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Argyll and Bute
British Parliament Argyll and Bute
Scottish Parliament Argyll and Bute

Portnahaven ( Gaelic : Port na h-Abhainne ) is a small town on the Scottish Hebridean island of Islay . It is located in the south of the Rhinns of Islay peninsula near Rhinns Point , which marks the southernmost point of the peninsula. Bowmore , the main town on the island, is about 15 km to the northeast, and the Port Ellen ferry terminal is about 20 km to the west-southwest. The nearest town is Port Wemyss, a few hundred meters away .

The village is nestled around a small bay. Your harbor is protected by the islands of Orsay and Eilean Mhic Coinnich, a few hundred meters away . The A847 ends in Portnahaven, which branches off the A846 in Bridgend and connects the village to the road network.

history

In the 1830s, Walter Frederick Campbell , the Laird of Islay, built various localities on the island, essentially to provide housing for the people displaced from their lands in the course of the Highland Clearances . In addition to Port Ellen, Port Charlotte and Port Wemyss, Portnahaven was also one of the planned settlements that developed on Islay during this time. According to reports, there was previously a settlement of poor fishermen's huts at the site. At the census of 1871, 411 people lived in Portnahaven. Ten years later, the number had dropped to 361. After only 106 residents in 1961, the population finally rose to 150 in the 1991 census.

Portnahaven was initially in Parish Kilchoman and was with the Portnahaven Church location of the parish side church after the Kilchoman Church, which was completed in 1827 . It was built to offer a nearby church to the people of the south of the Rhinns of Islay . In 1849 the Parish Kilchoman was split up and an independent Parish Portnahaven was established with the Portnahaven Church as the main church. In 1962 the Parish was merged again with Kilchoman and finally in 2006 with Kilmeny .

To the north of the village is the Cultoon stone circle .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ↑ Portnahaven (Port na h-Abhainne). Argyll and Bute. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .
  3. ↑ Entry on Portnahaven  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ Portnahaven. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 6: (Pet - Zet). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1885, p. 218 .
  5. ↑ entry. In: Gazetteer for Scotland. 2011.
  6. ↑ Entry on Portnahaven and Port Wemyss Parish Church  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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