Loch Eishort

A historical perspective, drawn from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, edited by Francis H. Groome and originally published in parts by Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh between 1882 and 1885.

This edition is copyright © The Editors of the Gazetteer for Scotland, 2002-2022.

It has taken much time and money to make the six-volumes of Groome's text freely accessible. Please help us continue and develop by making a donation. If only one out of every ten people who view this page gave £5 or $10, the project would be self-sustaining. Sadly less than one in thirty-thousand contribute, so please give what you can.

Use the tabs on the right of this page to see other parts of this entry

Eishart, a sea-loch in the S of the Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, separating the Strathaird peninsula from the upper part of the peninsula of Sleat. It opens at right angles to the mouth of Loch Slapin, and, striking 6½ miles east-north-eastward, diminishing gradually from a width of 2½ miles to a near point, and terminates at an isthmus 3 ¼ miles broad from the head of Loch Indal. 'There is not,' says Alexander Smith, 'a prettier sheet of water in the whole world. Everything about is wild, beautiful, and lovely. Yon drink a strange unfamiliar air; yon seem to be sailing out of the 19th century away back into the 9th.'

An accompanying 19th C. Ordnance Survey map is available, or use the map tab to the right of this page.

Note: This text has been made available using a process of scanning and optical character recognition. Despite manual checking, some typographical errors may remain. Please remember this description dates from the 1880s; names may have changed, administrative divisions will certainly be different and there are known to be occasional errors of fact in the original text, which we have not corrected because we wish to maintain its integrity. This information is provided subject to our standard disclaimer