Kilmore, Skye
Kilmore
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|---|---|
 Rocky foreshore east of Kimore on the Sleat Peninsula | |
  Kilmore Location within the Isle of Skye | |
| OS grid reference | NG654067 |
| Council area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | IV44 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
Kilmore (Gaelic: A' Chille Mhór[1]) is a small township on the east coast of the Sleat peninsula of the Isle of Skye, in the Scottish council area of Highland. It lies on the A851 road and is 1⁄4 mile (400 metres) southwest of Ferindonald.
Bun-sgoil Shlèite and Sleat Medical Centre are located at the southern end of Kilmore, and the Gaelic college Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is 1⁄2 mile (800 metres) southwest.
Church
Sleat Parish Church (1876) is located here, with the ruins of the Old Parish Church behind (1631–1876). A former Minister Rev. John Forbes (1818–63) was a noted Gaelic scholar who wrote a Gaelic grammar and investigated the deaths of three girls from the parish who were taken to the cotton mills of Manchester as forced-labour and published his findings in a book Weeping in the Isles (1853).[2]
References
- ^ Iain Mac an Tàilleir (2003). "Placenames collected by Iain Mac an Tailleir". Scottish Parliament. Archived from the original on 24 October 2004. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- ^ Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland: a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical.
External links
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