Eriska
| Eriska | |
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| Location | |
 Eriska
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| Eriska shown within Scotland | |
| OS grid reference | NM902429 |
| Names | |
| Gaelic name | ùruisg, |
| Norse name | Aoraisge |
| Meaning of name | 'water nymph island' or 'Erik's island' |
| Area and summit | |
| Area | 300 ha[1] |
| Area rank | 87 |
| Highest elevation | 47 m |
| Population | |
| Population | No estimate available |
| Groupings | |
| Island group | Loch Linnhe |
| Local Authority | Argyll and Bute |
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| References | [2][3][4] |
| If shown, area and population ranks are for all Scottish islands and all inhabited Scottish islands respectively. Population data is from 2001 census. | |
Eriska is a flat, tidal island at the entrance to Loch Creran on the west coast of Scotland. Privately owned, the island is run as a hotel with wooded grounds.[2] The island is evidently populated although no record for the total was provided by the 2001 census.[5]
[edit] Geography
The island is largely of schist and slate with the lower ground to the west as a raised beach. To the east of the bridge, there is a partly submerged Crannog, or fortified dwelling, dating from the Bronze Age around 200 B.C.[6] It is part of the Lynn of Lorn National Scenic Area, one of 40 in Scotland.[7]
[edit] Eriska House
Eriska House was built in 1884 by the Stewarts of Appin. Built in the Scottish Baronial style by architect Hippolyte Blanc, who was highly acclaimed for his meticulous attention to detail and for a very high degree of specification in materials.
Eriska was occupied by the Blairs and Clark Hutchisons, who built the bridge over the drying channel, connecting the island to the mainland at all states of the tide. When they left in 1930 little upkeep was done until the island was purchased by the Buchanan-Smith family in 1973. The house remains essentially the same with the surrounding buildings converted to become part of the hotel.[6]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "Estate". Isle of Eriska Hotel. Retrieved 18 Dec 2011.
- ^ a b Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 1841954543.
- ^ Pàrlamaid na h-Alba placenames
- ^ Ordnance Survey
- ^ General Register Office for Scotland (28 November 2003) Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands. Retrieved 9 July 2007.
- ^ a b "Eriska Island". http://www.eriska-hotel.co.uk. Retrieved 2007-07-20.
- ^ "National Scenic Areas". SNH. Retrieved 30 Mar 2011.
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Coordinates: 56°31′54″N 5°24′45″W / 56.53167°N 5.4125°W
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