Gaelic Name: | Cuingleathad |
Official Name: | Coylet |
Static Image Name: | File:Coylet Inn 2.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Coylet Inn |
Unitary Scotland: | Argyll and Bute |
Lieutenancy Scotland: | Argyll and Bute |
Constituency Westminster: | Argyll and Bute |
Constituency Scottish Parliament: | Argyll and Bute |
Country: | Scotland |
Coordinates: | 56.0544°N -4.9836°W |
Os Grid Reference: | NS 14304 88632 |
Map Alt: | Scotland |
Map Relief: | yes |
Post Town: | DUNOON, ARGYLL |
Postcode Area: | PA |
Postcode District: | PA23 |
Dial Code: | 01369 |
Hide Services: | yes |
Coylet is a hamlet on Loch Eck, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland.[1]
The hamlet is within the Argyll Forest Park, which is itself within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. It developed around the Coylet Inn, a coaching inn on the A815 road that leads to Dunoon, the main town on the peninsula.
The name may be derived from Gaelic caol ait, "narrow place".[2]
The 1994 film The Blue Boy is centred around the story of a four-year-old boy drowning in Loch Eck and haunting the Coylet Inn. It was filmed on location at the inn.[3] [4] Starring Emma Thompson and Adrian Dunbar, directed by Paul Murton.