Shuna Island

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Shuna Island
The Farm in the southwest of Shuna
The Farm in the southwest of Shuna
Waters Loch Linnhe
Archipelago Inner Hebrides
Geographical location 56 ° 35 '15 "  N , 5 ° 23' 37"  W Coordinates: 56 ° 35 '15 "  N , 5 ° 23' 37"  W.
Shuna Island (Scotland)
Shuna Island
length 2.2 km
width 1.1 km
surface 1.55 km²
Highest elevation Tom at t-Seallaidh
71  meters ASL
Residents uninhabited
main place The Farm (historical)

Shuna Island ( Scottish Gaelic Siùna ) is a now uninhabited island in Loch Linnhe in the Scottish archipelago of the Inner Hebrides . It is only separated from the mainland by the narrow Shuna Canal. In 1938 there was a single farm on the south side of the island. According to the antiquarian Walter Macfarlane, the island was very fertile and provided plenty of milk, butter and fish from the hole . There is a ruined castle on the island, perhaps from the 15th or 16th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ National Records of Scotland: 2001 Census: Index B - Islands with no residents in 2001 Census (PDF)
  2. ↑ Arthur Mitchell (ed.), Geographical Collections relating to Scotland made by Walter MacFarlane , transcribed by Alexander Taitt. Scottish History Society, Volume II, 1907, p. 155, cited from GA Frank Knight, The Islands in Loch Linnhe, Argyllshire. Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society , NS 9/2, 1938, p. 104
  3. ^ GA Frank Knight, The Islands at Loch Linnhe, Argyllshire. Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society , NS 9/2, 1938, 104. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24680640

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