Eriska

#6017 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Eriska is a flat tidal island at the entrance to Loch Creran on the west coast of Scotland. Privately owned by the Buchanan-Smiths from 1973 until August 2016, Eriska is now owned by Creation Gem, a family-owned business from Hong Kong. The island is run as a hotel with wooded grounds. The island is evidently populated although no record for the total was provided by the census in 2001 or 2011. ()

Coordinates: 56°31'54"N, 5°24'44"W

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ScotlandUnited Kingdom

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Eriska – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Castle Stalker, Dunstaffnage Castle, Connel Bridge, Falls of Lora.

3 miN
14th-century castle with limited tours
Castle Stalker, Appin
78 min walk • Castle Stalker is a four-storey tower house or keep. It is set on a tidal islet on Loch Laich, an inlet off Loch Linnhe. It is about 1+1⁄2 miles north-east of Port Appin, Argyll, Scotland, and is visible from the A828 road about midway between Oban and Glen Coe.
5.4 miS
13th-century fortress of the MacDougalls
Dunstaffnage Castle, Oban
138 min walk • Dunstaffnage Castle is a partially ruined castle in Argyll and Bute, western Scotland. It lies 3 miles NNE of Oban, situated on a platform of conglomerate rock on a promontory at the south-west of the entrance to Loch Etive, and is surrounded on three sides by the sea.
5.3 miS
Bridge
Connel Bridge
135 min walk • Connel Bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans Loch Etive at Connel in Scotland. The bridge takes the A828 road across the narrowest part of the loch, at the Falls of Lora. It is a category B listed structure.
5.3 miS
Natural attraction, Park, Waterfall
Falls of Lora, Oban
134 min walk • The Falls of Lora is a tidal race which forms at the mouth of Loch Etive when a particularly high tide runs out from the loch. They form white water rapids for two to five days either side of the spring tides.
6.5 miSE
Monastery
Ardchattan Priory
166 min walk • The Ardchattan Priory was a Valliscaulian monastic community in Ardchattan, Argyll, Scotland. It was founded in 1230 by Duncan MacDougal, Lord of Argyll. From the early 14th century, the Prior of Ardchattan held the chantership of Lismore Cathedral.
2.6 miW
Church
St Moluag's Cathedral, Isle of Lismore
67 min walk • St. Moluag's Cathedral is located on the Scottish island of Lismore just off the coast of Oban. As a congregation of the Church of Scotland, which is Presbyterian, the church is not technically a cathedral, in spite of its name.
3.1 miW
Forts and castles, Reportedly haunted
Castle Coeffin
80 min walk • Castle Coeffin is a ruin on the island of Lismore, an island in Loch Linnhe, in Argyll, on the west coast of Scotland. It stands on a promontory on the north-west coast of the island, across Loch Linnhe from Glensanda, at grid reference NM853437.
2.2 miW
Archaeological site
Tirefour Castle, Isle of Lismore
56 min walk • Tirefour Castle, is an Iron Age broch located 4 kilometres north of Achnacroish on the island of Lismore, Scotland.
4 miN
Island
Shuna Island
102 min walk • Shuna Island or simply Shuna is an island in Loch Linnhe, offshore from Appin. The island is approximately two kilometres long and one kilometre wide and extends to some 155 ha in total.