A sandy beach and area of machair at the end of a quarter-mile / 0.5-km long cove on the west coast of the Rhinns of Islay, Argyll and Bute, Traigh Bhan is located a mile (1.5 km) north of Smaull and 1½ miles (2.5 km) west southwest of Sanaigmore. It was here, in 1847, that local people buried the bodies of 108 Irish men, women and children who had perished when the brig Exmouth foundered on rocks at Ghille Mhoire to the north. The Sanaigmore Monument commemorates their loss.
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