Black Isle

The Black Isle (Scottish Gaelic: an t-Eilean Dubh) is an eastern area of Ross and Cromarty. It is nearly always referred to with the article in front.

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It includes such villages as:

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• Conon Bridge
• Muir of Ord
• Munlochy
• Avoch
• Rosemarkie
• Fortrose
• Tore
• Cromarty
• Culbokie

Despite its name, the Black Isle is not an island, but a peninsula (Scottish Gaelic uses the same word for island and peninsula), surrounded on three sides by water - the Cromarty Firth to the North, the Beauly Firth to the South, and the Moray Firth to the East.

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It was one of the earliest parts of the northern Highlands to experience "agricultural improvements", and was settled with many Lowland shepherds and farmers, especially from the north east.

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Black Isle: See also ►



 

Cromarty Firth: Cromarty Firth forms an arm of the North Sea in Scotland....

Beauly Firth: The Beauly Firth is an estuary in northern Scotland. It is effectively a continuation of the Moray Firth/Firth of Inverness westward, and is bounded at one end by Beauly and at the other by Inverness (North and South Kessock)....

Moray Firth: The Moray Firth is a roughly triangular inlet of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness. It is the largest firth in Scotland, stretching from Duncansby Head in the north, to Fraserburgh in the east, to the Beauly Firth and Inverness in the west. It has more than 800 kilometres (about 500 miles)...




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