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Eilean and Domhnuill
The earliest construction of a crannog is the completely artificial Neolithic islet of Eilean Domhnuill, Loch Olabhat on North Uist in Scotland.
At the islet of Eilean Domhnuill, Loch Olabhat on North Uist, Unstan ware pottery suggests a date of 3200-2800 BC for what may be the earliest crannog.
Finely made and decorated Unstan ware pottery links the inhabitants to chambered cairn tombs nearby and to sites far afield including Balbrindi and Eilean Domhnuill.
Finds of finely-made and decorated Unstan ware pottery link the inhabitants to chambered cairn tombs nearby and to sites far afield including Balbridie and Eilean Domhnuill.
There are scattered occurrences of Unstan ware on the Scottish Mainland, as at Balbridie, and in the Western Isles, as at Eilean Domhnuill.

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Loch Langavat on Lewis is long, and has several large islands in its midst, including Eilean Mòr.
North Uist has many prehistoric structures, including the Barpa Langass chambered cairn, the Pobull Fhinn stone circle, the Fir Bhreige standing stones, the islet of Eilean Dòmhnuill ( which may be the earliest crannog site in Scotland ), and the Baile Sear roundhouses, which were exposed by storms in January, 2005.
The Gaelic name, Èisdeal () or Eilean Èisdeal has a long vowel and local folk legend attributes this to a derivation from èist thall " listen to that yonder ".
Sleat is a traditional parish that has several communities and two major landowners ( the Clan Donald Lands Trust and Eilean Iarmain Estate.
To the south lie Soray ( Eastward Isle ) and Sgeir Tomain, while the main western outcrops are Eilean a ' Gobha ( Isle of the Blacksmith ), Roaireim ( which has a natural rock arch ) and Bròna Cleit ( Sad Sunk Rock ).
The first ( the Eriskay Pony ( Purebred ) Studbook Society or Comann Each nan Eilean, formed in 1971 has the goal of maintaining the purity of the Eriskay breed, and disallows all crossbreeding.
The local council ( Comhairle nan Eilean Siar ) has offices in Balivanich, and there is also a Post Office, hospital, primary school and several shops and cafes.
Eilean Donan Castle, located on Loch Duich, has long been associated with the Macraes, when it was a stronghold of the chiefs of Clan Mackenzie.
McKenna has also been responsible for helping create and furnish the Gavin Maxwell museum on Eilean Bàn, the last island home of Maxwell, an author and naturalist, most famous for his book Ring of Bright Water, on which the film of the same name was based.
All water going traffic that travels through the kyles has to negotiate either the narrow sound that separates Eilean Buidhe from Eilean Mòr and Eilean Fraoich or pass south of the islands, via the Wood Farm buoy.
Eilean Bàn is owned by the Scottish Ministers, but since 1998 has been managed by the Eilean Ban Trust as a wildlife sanctuary.

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Image: Eilean Musdile. jpg | The lighthouse on Eilean Musdile from the Oban to Craignure ferry.
Among old castles are those of Lochslin, in the parish of Fearn, said to date from the 13th century, which, though ruinous, possesses two square towers in good preservation ; Balone, in the parish of Tarbat, once a stronghold of the Earls of Ross ; the remains of Dingwall Castle, their original seat ; and Eilean Donan in Loch Alsh, which was blown up by English warships during the abortive Jacobite rising in 1719.
The Sound of Handa separates it from the mainland and smaller islands around Handa include Glas-Leac to the south, Eilean an Aigeach to the north east and Stac an t-Sealbhaig to the north.
A ferry sails from Easdale to Ellenabeich ( Gaelic: Eilean nam Beathach ) on the nearby island of Seil ( Gaelic: Saoil ), which is separated from Easdale by only a narrow channel.
In 2011, a Viking ship burial, probably from the 10th century, was unearthed at Port an Eilean Mhòir on Ardnamurchan.
Looking from Garbh Eilean to Eilean an Taighe on the right with Eilean Mhuire in the distance.
File: Eilean Donan Castle Panorama .. jpg | Panorama of the castle from the south
File: Eilean Donan castle-95mm. jpg | The castle, seen from the west
When VIC 72, renamed Eilean Eisdeal, ventured from her home at the Inveraray Maritime Museum to visit the Glasgow River Festival in 2005, she proudly bore the name Vital Spark in testimony to her continuing popularity.
Its name is believed to derive from the Gaelic term Eilean, signifying an island, on account of the presence of an island in the River Ythan, which historically offered a convenient fording point.
Caledonian MacBrayne ferries sail from the terminal, on the rocky islet Eilean Ceann na Creige, to Port Ellen or Port Askaig on Islay and to Colonsay.
Alexander MacDonald ) who was the Episcopalian Church of Scotland minister ( this was prior to the Scottish Episcopal Church splitting from The Kirk ) for Eilean Fhìonain / Fhianain ( Finnan Island ), who lived at Dalilea in Moidart, where the Bard was likely born.
The north end of Eilean Chathastail from Eigg
He wrote that: " We passed the Isle of Muck, with its one low hill ; saw the pyramidal mountains of Rum looming tall in the offing ; and then, running along the Isle of Eigg, with its colossal Scuir rising between us and the sky, as if it were a piece of Babylonian wall, or the great wall of China, only vastly larger, set down on the ridge of a mountain, we entered the channel which separates the isle from one of its dependencies, Eilean Chathastail, and cast anchor in the tideway.
Lochbuie from the west with Loch Uisg at left, Moy Castle at centre, Eilean Mòr to the right and Druim Fada beyond.
Frank Lockwood's Island ( or Eilean Sneth Dian ) lies in the Firth of Lorne, just offshore from the Laggan peninsula to the south.
Service between Benbecula and Stornoway was under contract from Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
Eilean Fraoich photographed from the PS Waverley.

Eilean and while
England includes Brighton Pier, the Angel of the North, Smiths Arms Wiltshire, the smallest pub in Britain, and Stonehenge, with Scotland including Edinburgh Castle, Royal Mile, Eilean Donan, Jedburgh Abbey, Blair Atholl and Loch Ness and Wales featuring a rugby pitch and a typical Welsh village street while the National Anthem is played.

Eilean and middle
Loch Duich from the north-west, with Eilean Donan Castle ( middle foreground ), Loch Long ( Highlands ) | Loch Long ( left foreground ), Loch Alsh ( right foreground ), and the mountains of Glen Shiel ( centre background )
* Eilean Meadhonach ( middle island )

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Sybilla died in unrecorded circumstances at Eilean nam Ban ( Kenmore on Loch Tay ) in July, 1122 and was buried at Dunfermline Abbey.
Alexander did not remarry and Walter Bower wrote that he planned an Augustinian Priory at the Eilean nam Ban dedicated to Sybilla's memory, and he may have taken steps to have her venerated.
In 597 Augustine of Canterbury is said, by the Venerable Bede, to have landed with 40 men at Ebbsfleet, in the parish of Minster-in-Thanet, before founding Britain's second Christian monastery in Canterbury ( the first was founded fifty years earlier by Saint Columba on Eilean na Naoimh, in the Hebrides ): a cross marks the spot.
Filming locations for the film include Blenheim Palace, Savoy Hotel London, Lloyd's of London, Borough Market, London, Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur ( with other filming completed at Pinewood Studios ), and the Bukit Jalil LRT station However, the signage at this station that was used for the movie was Pudu LRT station instead of Bukit Jalil.
The Inverarary Maritime Heritage Museum is based on the iron sailing ship Arctic Penguin, moored at the pier, along with the Clyde puffers VIC 72, Eilean Eisdeal, renamed Vital Spark, and VIC27 Auld Reekie, renamed Maggie.
Eilean Tigh lies about away across the straits of Caol Rona at the centre of which is tiny Eilean an Fhraoich.
At this time the area was at the boundary of the Norse-Celtic Lordship of the Isles and the Earldom of Ross: Eilean Donan provided a strong defensive position against Norse expeditions.
Eilean Donan Castle at sunrise
Cod, landed here and at Gairloch, was dried at one of two curing stations at Badachro-one on Eilean Horrisdale and one on Eilean Tioram.
Here at the northern end of the east kyle are the Burnt Islands and the island of Eilean Dubh.
Based initially in Kintail, the clan was recorded at Eilean Donan on Loch Duich, a stronghold with which it was for many centuries associated.

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