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Garbh Sgeir ( Gaelic: ' rough skerry ') is a rock about 100 metres west of the islet Òigh-sgeir, in the Small Isles, Lochaber, Scotland.
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Garbh and Sgeir
* Garbh Sgeir,
Other islets surrounding Rona include Cow Rock, Eilean Seamraig, Garbh Eilean, Sgeirean Buidhe Borlum, and Sgeir Shuas.
) between Little Colonsay and Ulva, and also Garbh Eilean (" rough island "), Eilean Bàn (" white / fair island "), Eilean an Rìgh (" island of the king "), Eilean na h-Uamh (" island of the cave "), Trealbhan, Sgeir Dhubh, Sgeir Dhubh Bheag, Sgaigean, Bogha Mòr and Eilean Reilean.
There are three main islets in the Sound of Ulva: Eilean Garbh (" rough island "), Eilean a ' Bhuic (" island of the buck ") and Eilean a ' Chaolais (" island of the kyle / straits "), as well as the smaller island of Sgeir Ruadh.
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Garbh Sgeir is a rock that lies next to the islet and the landing place for Hyskeir lies in the channel between the two.
Garbh and Gaelic
William the Lion ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Uilliam mac Eanric ; Modern Gaelic: Uilleam mac Eanraig ), sometimes styled William I, also known by the nickname Garbh, " the Rough ", ( c 1143 – 4 December 1214 ) reigned as King of the Scots from 1165 to 1214.
The Garvellachs ( Scottish Gaelic: Garbh Eileaich ) or Isles of the Sea form a small archipelago in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
Garbh and rough
* Garvaghy ( from Garbh Achadh meaning " rough field ")
The main islands are Garbh Eilean ( rough island ) and Eilean an Taighe ( house island ), which are joined by a narrow isthmus, and Eilean Mhuire ( island of the Virgin Mary ) to the east.
Garbh and is
It is known that the island was ruled by the MacLeods from 1518 when Calum Garbh, younger son of the MacLeod Chief of Lewis was granted title.
The castle was inhabited until the death by drowning of the Chief Iain Garbh in 1671 and is now a ruin sitting atop a pinnacle.
Water emerges in a number of pools called the Wells of Dee, one of these is pictured below, it then flows across the plateau to the cliff edge and plunges into An Garbh Choire.
On the west side of the island is a secure and picturesque natural anchorage, Acairsaid Mhór, protected by Eilean Garbh.
One such pirate chief is said to have been Calum Garbh MacLeod, son of a chief of Clan Macleod of Lewis who based himself at Brochel Castle on Raasay in 1518 and used Rona as raiding base.
The island is surrounded by many smaller ones including Eilean na Cloiche in the south east, Eilean an Fhèidh in the east, Flodaigh Mòr in the north east, Haunaray to the north, and Garbh Eilean Mòr between it and Grimsay.
Garbh Eileach is an uninhabited island in the Inner Hebrides of the west coast of Scotland.
Garbh and about
Dolerite columns on the north side of Garbh Eilean are over tall and about in diameter.
From here the route follows the northern ridge of the mountain, Stob Garbh, to the summit, the distance being about 9 km.
Garbh and west
At this point, near the head of Glen Dee, the main valley turns roughly west towards An Garbh Choire, and the Lairig Ghru track continues northward into the hanging valley as shown in the photograph.
Garbh and Isles
The Shiant Isles have a large population of seabirds, including tens of thousands Atlantic Puffins breeding in burrows on the slopes of Garbh Eilean, as well as significant numbers of Common Guillemots, Razorbills, Northern Fulmars, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Shags, gulls and Great Skuas.
Garbh and Scotland
In the north-facing corrie of Garbh Coire Mor the snow has completely melted just 5 times in the last century: 1933, 1959, 1996, 2003 & 2006 and the patches that linger there are the longest lying snow patches in Scotland.
Garbh and .
According to a local legend, the town got its Irish name, Loch Garman, from a young man named Garman Garbh who was drowned on the mudflats at the mouth of the River Slaney by flood waters released by an enchantress.
Niall Garbh Ó Domhnaill ( anglicised as Niall Garve O ' Donnell ) 1569-1626.
Niall Garbh was incensed at the elevation of his cousin Hugh Roe ( Red Hugh ) to the chieftainship in 1592, was further alienated when the latter deprived him of his castle of Lifford, and a bitter feud between the two O ' Donnells was the result.
image: Falls of Dee. jpg | Falls of Dee, An Garbh Choire
Snow patches can remain on the hills until August or September, while in the Garbh Coire Mòr of Braeriach the snow melted just five times in the last century.
The islands include Garbh Eileach, Dùn Channuill and Eileach an Naoimh.
Looking from Garbh Eilean to Eilean an Taighe on the right with Eilean Mhuire in the distance.
Garbh Eilean and Eilean an Taighe together extend to and the much more fertile Eilean Mhuire to.
Nuala married Niall Garve O ' Donnell ( Irish: Niall Garbh O Dómhnaill ) in 1592 ; when he sided with the English during the Nine Years War, she abandoned him and subsequently joined Rudhraighe on the Flight of the Earls with her daughter, Grania.
Snow-patches have been known to persist at various locations on Ben Macdui, most notably Garbh Uisge Beag.
Sgeir and Gaelic
The origin of the name Rockall is uncertain but it has been suggested that it derives from the Gaelic Sgeir Rocail, meaning skerry ( or sea rock ) of roaring, ( although rocail can also be translated as " tearing " or " ripping ").
In Scottish Gaelic, it appears as sgeir, e. g. Sula Sgeir, in Irish as sceir, and in Manx as skeyr.
Skerryvore ( from the Gaelic An Sgeir Mhòr meaning " The Great Skerry ") is a remote reef that lies off the west coast of Scotland, 12 miles ( 19 kilometres ) south west of the island of Tiree.
Sula Sgeir ( Scottish Gaelic based on the Old Norse: súla, " gannet " and sker, " skerry ") is a small, uninhabited Scottish island in the North Atlantic, west of North Rona.
Sgeir and is
At the south of the island near Mull is Sgeir a ' Charraig, and there is Sgeir Dubhail off Rubha nan Gall ( north coast ), to the south east near Cùl a ' Gheata are Sgeir nan Leac, Sgeir Bhioramuill, and Bogha MhicGuaire (" MacQuarrie's rock ").
To the south west is Sgeir na Sgeireadh, and Màisgeir due south of Gometra.
To the west of Achduin the land is relatively flat and low-lying, the area known as " The Aird " ending at Nisam Point which overlooks the little islands of Rubha Niosaim and Sgeir Mhor.
Although seemingly very inhospitable to humans, there is a ruined stone bothy called Taigh Beannaichte ( Blessed House ) on the east headland Sgeir an Teampaill.
There are some 5, 000 breeding pairs of gannets on Sula Sgeir, which they share with other bird species such as Black-legged Kittiwakes, guillemots, puffins, fulmars and at present what is believed to be the only resident albatross in the North Atlantic.
How long before 1549 the Nessmen sailed to Sula Sgeir each year to collect the young gannets for food and feathers is not known, but it may be assumed that it was a tradition for centuries.
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