Garbh Eilean Explained

This is a list of islands in Scotland with the name Garbh Eilean or similar, meaning "rough island" in Scottish Gaelic.

The largest of these islands are:

• Garbh Eilean, Shiant Islands
• Garbh Eilean, Loch Maree, in Loch Maree

Smaller islands

Garbh Eilean

• Garbh Eilean in Loch Ròg, Lewis
• Garbh Eilean in Loch Erisort, Lewis
• Garbh Eilean, Kylesku - crossed by the Kylesku bridge
• Garbh Eilean in Coal Rona, south of Rona
• Garbh Eilean in Loch Garry
• Garbh Eilean between Ulva and Little Colonsay
• Garbh Eilean near Uisken, Mull
• Garbh Eilean in Loch Sunart
• Garbh Eilean Mòr between Ronay and Grimsay in the Outer Hebrides
• Gairbh Eilein, Loch Dunvegan

Eilean Garbh

• Eilean Garbh in Strathnaver
• Eilean Garbh off Gigha
• Eilean Garbh in Badcall Bay, Sutherland
• Eilean Garbh west of South Rona
• Eilean Garbh in Laggan Bay, between Ulva and Mull

An Garbh-eilean

• An Garbh-eilean in Loch Kishorn
• An Garbh-eilean in Loch nan Uamh, Sound of Arisaig
• Garvie Island (An Garbh-eilean) east of Cape Wrath

Innis Garbh/Garbh Innis

• Inchgarvie, Firth of Forth, an anglicisation of this term.

Similar names

• Garbh Eileach, an island in the Inner Hebrides of the west coast of Scotland
• Garvellachs, a small archipelago in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland
• Garbh Sgeir, a rock near the islet Òigh-sgeir, in the Small Isles, Lochaber

See also

• Rough Island in the Solway Firth
• List of islands in Scotland