Coylet Explained

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
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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]

Popular culture

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Benmore Forest and Loch Eck - D-block GB-212000-687000 . . . 4 February 2017.
  2. James Brown Johnston . Place-names of Scotland. Coylet Inn (L. Eck) . Nature . 70 . 1813 . 85 . 2nd . 1903 . 2204716 . 1904Natur..70..292. . 10.1038/070292a0. free .
  3. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12692709.a-ghostly-legend-materialises/ "A ghostly legend materialises"
  4. Web site: The Blue Boy. www.imdb.com.