Map Type: | Isle of Skye |
Official Name: | Kilmaluag |
Gaelic Name: | Cill Moluaig |
Static Image Name: | The Main Street Kilmaluag - geograph.org.uk - 566067.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | The Main Street through Kilmaluag |
Country: | Scotland |
Unitary Scotland: | Highland |
Lieutenancy Scotland: | Ross and Cromarty |
Coordinates: | 57.681°N -6.317°W |
Os Grid Reference: | NG426738 |
Constituency Westminster: | Ross, Skye and Lochaber |
Constituency Scottish Parliament: | Ross, Skye and Inverness West |
Post Town: | PORTREE |
Postcode Area: | IV |
Postcode District: | IV51 |
Dial Code: | 01470 552 |
Kilmaluag (Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Cill Moluaig, meaning St. Moluag's Cell, Church or Chapel) is a township made up of several small settlements on the most northerly point of the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Kilmaluag is within the parish of Kilmuir.[1]
The settlements within the township include Balmacqueen (Gaelic: Macqueen's Place), Kendram (Gaelic: Head of the Ridge), Connista[2] (Norse: High Farm), Aird (Gaelic: Point or Promontory) and Solitote (Gaelic: Ruin Hill).
The Kilmaluag also gives its name to a Jurassic geological formation, the Kilmaluag Formation. This limestone and sandstone formation is Bathonian in age, and outcrops in the harbour of the village and in several other locations on Skye.