Eilean Aigas

#4086 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Eilean Aigas is an island in the River Beauly, Scotland, in Kiltarlity parish in traditional Inverness-shire, now Highland Region. It is most notable for the mansion on it at its north end, which was formerly owned by the Sobieski Stuarts and rented by author and Scottish nationalist Compton Mackenzie from Lord Fraser of Lovat. It is joined to the bank by a narrow white bridge. ()

Coordinates: 57°26'23"N, 4°33'18"W

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Eilean Aigas – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Beauly Priory, Muir of Ord Golf Club, Moniack Castle, Erchless Castle.

4.8 miNE
Historical place, Church, Monastery
Beauly Priory, Beauly
122 min walk • Beauly Priory was a Valliscaulian monastic community located at "Insula de Achenbady", now Beauly, Inverness-shire. It was probably founded in 1230.
6.2 miNE
57°30'48"N • 4°27'29"W
Muir of Ord Golf Club, Muir of Ord
159 min walk • Golf, Outdoor activities, Nightlife
5.4 miE
Forts and castles
Moniack Castle, Inverness
137 min walk • Moniack Castle is a 16th-century tower house located 7 miles west of Inverness, and just south of Beauly in Highland, Scotland. The castle was built in 1580 by members of the Clan Fraser. The castle is protected as a category B listed building.
3.6 miW
Forts and castles
Erchless Castle
92 min walk • Erchless Castle is an L-plan castle in northern Scotland, near Struy, Highland. The current building was built in about 1600.
2.6 miE
Forts and castles
Beaufort Castle
66 min walk • Beaufort Castle or Castle Dounie is a Baronial style mansion built in 1880 and incorporating older building work. It is situated on the right bank of the River Beauly near the town of Beauly in Inverness-shire and is 1 mile north of Kiltarlity and 13 mi west of Inverness.
2.3 miNE
Art gallery, Shopping, Art museum
Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly
60 min walk • Kilmorack Gallery reuses a converted church building for its exhibitions, in a rural location near Beauly in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
0.5 miW
Nature and wildlife, Park
Aigas Field Centre, Beauly
13 min walk • Aigas Field Centre is a nature centre based at the home of naturalist and author Sir John Lister-Kaye, Aigas House. The centre was opened in 1977 by ecologist Sir Frank Fraser Darling, and provides nature-based holidays for adults and environmental education services for school children.
3.6 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Waterfall
Culnaskiach Falls, Drumnadrochit
93 min walk • Culnaskiach Falls is a waterfall in Boblainy Forest, to the south of the village of Kiltarlity, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is on a small stream which flows into the Bruiach Burn.
5.6 miW
Waterfall, Nature
Culligran Falls, Beauly
144 min walk • Glen Strathfarrar is a glen in the Highland region of Scotland, near Loch Ness. The Glen is part of the Affric-Beauly hydro-electric power scheme, with a dam at Loch Monar and a 9 km tunnel carrying water to an underground power station at Deanie; a second dam just below Loch...