Kilmore, Skye Explained

Map Type:Isle of Skye
Country:Scotland
Official Name:Kilmore
Gaelic Name:A' Chille Mhór
Static Image:Rocky foreshore east of Kilmore on the Sleat Peninsula - geograph.org.uk - 432710.jpg
Static Image Caption:Rocky foreshore east of Kimore on the Sleat Peninsula
Os Grid Reference:NG654067
Coordinates:57.0917°N -5.873°W
Unitary Scotland:Highland
Postcode District:IV44
Postcode Area:IV

Kilmore (Gaelic: A' Chille Mhór[1]) is a small hamlet, on the east coast of the Sleat peninsula of the Isle of Skye is in the Scottish council area of Highland. It lies on the A851 road and is NaNmiles southwest of Ferindonald.

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]

Bun-sgoil Shlèite and Sleat Medical Centre are located at the southern end of Kilmore, and the Gaelic college Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is NaNmiles southwest.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Iain Mac an Tàilleir . 2003 . . Placenames collected by Iain Mac an Tailleir . 2011-01-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20041024190817/http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/gaelic/vl-trans.htm . 2004-10-24 .
  2. Book: Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland: a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical.