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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]
Duntulm (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Thuilm) is a township situated on the northwest coast of the Trotternish peninsula on the Isle of Skye, and is made up of Shulista (North Duntulm) and South Duntulm. [1] It is located on the single-track A855 road about 24 miles north of Portree.
The name is thought to be derived from Old Norse vík, which means bay [3] or inlet. Borrowed via Germanic intermediary *wīkō ('harbour town') from Latin vīcus (Classical Latin: [ˈu̯iːkʊs̠], 'village'), Uig shares etymological roots with placenames such as Wick, Highland; Vik, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland; the suffix -wich, and the word village itself.
Snizort (Scottish Gaelic: Snìosort) is a civil parish in the north-eastern part of the Isle of Skye, [1] comprising the head of Loch Snizort and the western coast of Trotternish up to Uig, which is the largest settlement. [2]
Between 1750 and 1772, Flodigarry, north of Staffin, was the home of Flora MacDonald, the Jacobite made famous by her part in Prince Charles Edward Stuart's escape after his defeat at Culloden. [19] She later moved to Kingsburgh on the southwestern coast of Trotternish, and it was here that Boswell and Johnson met her during their tour of the ...
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election, and was the final constituency to announce its result, due to multiple recounts related to technical issues in its vote-counting.
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.
Soay lies to the west of Loch Scavaig on the south-west coast of Skye, from which it is separated by Soay Sound. Unlike its neighbours Skye and Rùm, Soay is low-lying, reaching 141 metres (463 ft) at Beinn Bhreac. The dumb-bell shaped island is virtually cut in half by inlets that form Soay Harbour (north) and the main bay, Camas nan Gall (to ...