Fraoch-Eilean

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Fraoch-eilean is a small island with an uncertain population north of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It is about 55 hectares in extent and the highest point is 11 metres. Its name derives from the Gaelic for "heather island". ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 57°30'8"N, 7°14'55"W

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Fraoch-Eilean – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Pobull Fhinn, Teampull na Trionaid, Barpa Langass, Carinish.

4.5 miN
Archaeological site
Pobull Fhinn, North Uist
115 min walk • Pobull Fhinn is a stone circle on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. The name is Gaelic. The first word has been variously spelt as pobull, poball, pobul or as plural pobuill.
2.9 miNW
Church
Teampull na Trionaid, North Uist
75 min walk • Teampull na Trionaid is a ruined 13th-century Augustinian nunnery at Carinish, on North Uist, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
5 miN
Archaeological site
Barpa Langass, North Uist
127 min walk • Barpa Langass, is a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It measures about 72 feet in diameter by 18 feet in height, and is around 5,000 years old.
2.7 miNW
Archaeological site
Carinish, North Uist
70 min walk • Carinish, is a hamlet on North Uist, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. It is in the south of the island, about two miles from the causeway to Benbecula. The hamlet is known for the Carinish Stone Circle and the Trinity Temple. Carinish is within the parish of North Uist and is situated on the A865.
6.9 miSW
Forts and castles
Borve Castle, Benbecula
177 min walk • Borve Castle, also known as Castle Wearie, and Caisteal Bhuirgh in Scottish Gaelic, is a ruined 14th-century tower house, located at the south-west of the island of Benbecula, in the Western Isles of Scotland.
1 miSE
Island
Grimsay
26 min walk • Grimsay is a tidal island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
5.7 miSW
Village
Balivanich
146 min walk • Balivanich is a village on the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. It is the main centre for Benbecula and the adjacent islands of North Uist, South Uist and several smaller islands.
4.9 miNW
Island
Baleshare
125 min walk • Baleshare is a flat tidal island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Baleshare lies to the south-west of North Uist. Its economics and community were boosted by the building of a causeway in 1962. The 350-metre causeway was built by William Tawse Ltd.
2.9 miSE
Island
Ronay
74 min walk • Ronay is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, which lies a short distance off the east coast of Grimsay.