In Scotland, crannogs favour a western or ' Atlantic distribution ', with high concentrations in Argyll and Dumfries and Galloway.

The Clyde or Clyde-Carlingford type are principally found in northern and western Ireland and southwestern Scotland.

If the sources for north-eastern Britain, the lands of the kingdom of Northumbria and the former Pictland, are limited and late, those for the areas on the Irish Sea and Atlantic coasts — the modern regions of north-west England and all of northern and western Scotland — are non-existent, and archaeology and toponymy are of primary importance.

While the sources for north-eastern Britain, the lands of the kingdom of Northumbria and the former Pictland, are limited and late, those for the areas on the Irish Sea and Atlantic coasts — the modern regions of north-west England and all of northern and western Scotland — are non-existent, and archaeology and toponymy are of primary importance.

The situation of the Gaelic kingdoms of Dál Riata in western Scotland is uncertain.

Examples of this may still be found in various places, including in some of the Presbyterian churches of western Scotland.

Iona () is a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland.

A particular style of megalithic structure developed in Argyll, the Clyde estuary and elsewhere in western Scotland that has become known as the Clyde cairn.

As such many of these islands fell under Norwegian and Ui Imair hegemony between the 9th and 13th centuries and this Norse influence would see almost constant warfare on the western seaboard of Scotland until the partitioning of the Hebrides in 1156.

* Keys, a truce term used in western Scotland

It is found in Shetland, some western crofts and more rarely Central Scotland.

The kingdom of Dál Riata was located on the western coast of Scotland, and Viking incursions destroyed it after the death of its previous king, Áed mac Boanta in 839, according to the Annals of Ulster.

In July of the same year he and Daniel Solander visited the Isle of Wight, the western islands of Scotland and Iceland aboard Sir Lawrence and returned with many botanical specimens.

In the European Atlantic, the numerous separate stocks are on the shelves of Iceland, the coast of Norway, the Barents Sea, the Faroe Islands, off western Scotland, the North Sea, the Irish Sea, the Celtic Sea and in the Baltic Sea.

Dál Riata ( also Dalriada or Dalriata ) was a Gaelic overkingdom on the western coast of Scotland ( then Pict-land ) and parts of the Kingdom of Ulster.

He travelled through the western United States, Scotland, and England, until falling ill in Southern Africa.

Archean rocks are known from Greenland, the Canadian Shield, the Baltic Shield, Scotland, India, Brazil, western Australia, and southern Africa.

Northern Ireland, Wales and western parts of England and Scotland, being closest to the Atlantic Ocean, are generally the mildest, wettest and windiest regions of the UK, and temperature ranges here are seldom extreme.

This episode of history, in which the Fir Bolg come from what is assumed to be a place near modern Scotland, settle in Ireland, and then go to the Aran Islands, on Ireland's western fringe, has given rise to one interpretation of Fir Bolg origins.

Great Cumbrae ( Scottish Gaelic, Cumaradh Mòr ; also known as Cumbrae or the Isle of Cumbrae ) is the larger of the two islands known as The Cumbraes in the lower Firth of Clyde in western Scotland.

When the West Highland Line was built across Rannoch Moor, in western Scotland, its builders had to float the tracks on a mattress of tree roots, brushwood and thousands of tons of earth and ashes.

* 1830-Church of Scotland missionary Alexander Duff arrives in Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta ); William Swan, missionary to Siberia, writes Letters on Missions, the first Protestant comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of missions ; Baptism of Taufa ' ahau Tupou, King of Tonga, by a western missionary ; arrival of John Williams of the London Missionary Society in Samoa, landing in Sapapali ' i on Savai ' i island

Flying boats operated from the area in an attempt to secure the waters of the North Channel and the south western coast of Scotland.

A monument on Lyle Hill in Greenock, in western Scotland, in the shape of the Cross of Lorraine combined with an anchor, was raised by subscription as a memorial to the Free French naval vessels that sailed from the Firth of Clyde to take part in the Battle of the Atlantic.

In the same way that Brian Bóruma, High King of Ireland, was not the only king in Ireland, Máel Coluim was one of several kings within the geographical boundaries of modern Scotland: his fellow kings included the king of Strathclyde, who ruled much of the south-west, various Norse-Gael kings of the western coasts and the Hebrides and, nearest and most dangerous rivals, the Kings or Mormaers of Moray.

* 1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

John XXIII was acknowledged as pope by France, England, Bohemia, Prussia, Portugal, parts of the Holy Roman Empire, and numerous Northern Italian city states, including Florence and Venice ; however, the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII was regarded as pope by the Kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Scotland and Gregory XII was still favored by Ladislaus of Naples, Carlo I Malatesta, the princes of Bavaria, Louis III, Elector Palatine, and parts of Germany and Poland.

For example, although the words wee and little are interchangeable in some contexts, wee ( as an adjective ) is almost exclusively written by some people from some parts of northern Britain ( and especially Scotland ) or from Northern Ireland, whereas in Southern England and Wales, little is used predominantly.

Calvinism became the theological system of the majority in Scotland ( see John Knox ), the Netherlands, with men such as William Ames, T J Frelinghuysen and Wilhelmus à Brakel and parts of Germany ( especially those adjacent to the Netherlands ) with the likes of Olevianus and his colleague Zacharias Ursinus.

A tradition exists in some parts of the United Kingdom ( such as Scotland and North East England ) of rolling painted eggs down steep hills on Easter Sunday.

The Anglo-Saxons, a collection of various Germanic peoples, established several kingdoms that became the primary powers in what is now England and parts of southern Scotland.

The Anglo-Saxons warred with British successor states in Wales, Cornwall, and the Hen Ogledd ( Old North ; the Brythonic-speaking parts of northern England and southern Scotland ), as well as with each other.

In parts of Scotland and Ireland, Catholics loyal to James remained determined to see him restored to the throne, and there followed a series of bloody though unsuccessful uprisings.

" In Burns's lifetime haggis was a common dish of the poor as it was nourishing yet very cheap, being made from leftover parts of a sheep ( the commonest livestock in Scotland ) otherwise thrown away.

This explanation is supported by a children's tradition, observed up to the 1960s in some parts of Scotland at least, of visiting houses in their locality on New Year's Eve and requesting and receiving small treats such as sweets or fruit.

In the late 12th and early 13th centuries the border and political relationship between England and Scotland was disputed, with the kings of Scotland claiming parts of what is now northern England.

Old English ( Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc ) or Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons and their descendants in parts of what are now England and southern and eastern Scotland, more specifically in the England Old Period, between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.

Catholicism was the majority religion in various pockets, notably in parts of Lancashire and Cumbria, and, in Scotland, in parts of the Highlands and the southern Hebrides ( i. e. South Uist, Benbecula, Eriskay, Barra and Vatersay ).

* Scots language, a language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster

Loganair operates flights for FlyBe to other parts of Scotland up to ten times a day.

For this reason he is known as the Apostle to the Southern Picts, and there are numerous dedications to him in those parts of Scotland with a Pictish heritage, throughout the Scottish Lowlands, and in parts of Northern England with a Northumbrian heritage.

The dedications are found throughout the lands of the ancient Picts of Scotland, throughout Scotland south of the Firths of Clyde and Forth, in Orkney and Shetland, and in parts of northern England.

Section 6 of the Mercantile Law Amendment Act Scotland 1856 was derived from those parts of section 4 of the Statute of Frauds ( 1677 ) which relate to contracts of guarantee and from section 6 of the Statute of Frauds Amendment Act 1828.

By the mid-9th century the Norsemen had settled in Shetland, Orkney ( the Nordreys-Norðreyjar ), the Hebrides and Man, ( the Sudreys-Súðreyjar-this survives in the Diocese of Sodor and Man ) and parts of mainland Scotland.

He found himself ruling not only Norway, but the Isles, Man and parts of Scotland.