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The town plays host to the Isle of Skye's shinty club, Skye Camanachd. [22] They play at Pairc nan Laoch above the town on the road to Struan. Portree is home to two football clubs that play in the Skye and Lochalsh amateur football league called Portree and Portree Juniors. Portree is now home to a new youth football club, Skye Young Boys. [23]
The Isle of Skye, [a] [8] or simply Skye, [b] is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. [ Note 1 ] The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous hub dominated by the Cuillin , the rocky slopes of which provide some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in the country.
Skye and Lochalsh District Council was a district-level authority, with regional-level functions provided by the Highland Regional Council, based in Inverness. [ 1 ] The districts and regions created in 1975 were abolished in 1996, under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 and replaced with single-tier council areas .
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The Fairy Pools (Scottish Gaelic: Glumagan nan Sithichean [1]) are a series of natural pools and waterfalls in Glen Brittle on the Isle of Skye, Scotland They are in Coire na Creiche (" corrie of the spoils"), on the Allt Coir' a' Mhadaidh (" burn of the corrie of the wolf/dog"), [ 2 ] at the foot of the Cuillin mountains.
The Gaelic name for the "Isle of Skye" is An t-Eilean Sgitheanach (or Sgiathanach, a more recent and less common spelling).The meaning of this name is not clear. [1] Various etymologies have been proposed, such as the "winged isle" or "the notched isle", [2] but no definitive solution has been found to date and the placename may be from a yet-unknown substratum language and thus simply opaque.
Geological map of Skye Basal quartzite of the Eriboll Group from the Ord Window Durness Group dolomites forming a limestone pavement on Bheinn Shuardail Cross-bedded Jurassic sandstones of the Bearreraig Sandstone Formation near Glasnakille, Strathaird MacLeod's Tables, flat-topped hills and stepped topography from erosion of Paleocene lavas, Duirinish peninsula Mafic dyke near Broadford ...
Portree High School (Gaelic: Àrd-sgoil Phort Rìgh) is a state co-educational comprehensive school in Portree, Isle of Skye in Scotland. As of 2020, the school enrols 494 pupils and employs 80 teachers and support staff. [1] The school's catchment area draws from 15 primary schools across Skye and neighbouring Raasay. [2]