List of islands called Oronsay explained

This is a list of islands called Oronsay (Scottish Gaelic: ), which provides an index for islands in Scotland with this and similar names. It is one of the more common names for Scottish islands. The names come from Örfirisey which translates from Old Norse as "tidal" or "ebb island".^[1] The many islands include:

Inner Hebrides

• Eilean Ornsay, off Coll
• Oronsay, Colonsay
• Ornsay, by Isleornsay (Eilean Iarmain), Sound of Sleat
• Oronsay, Loch Bracadale, Skye
• Oronsay, Loch Sunart (enclosing Loch Drumbuie), Morvern

Outer Hebrides

Lewis

• Orasaigh off Leurbost
• Eilean Orasaigh near Cromor

North Uist

• Orasaigh N of Vallay
• Oronsay, Outer Hebrides by the hamlet of Greinetobht (approx 85 ha; 25 m)
• Orasaigh head of Loch Euphort
• Orasaigh Loch Amhlasaraigh (west of Tobha Beag)
• Orasaigh Sound of Harris, by the hamlet of Bagh a Chaise

Benbecula

• Orasaigh Uisgeabhagh
• Orasaigh Loch Uisgebhagh
• Orasaigh N of Meanais

South Uist

• Orasaigh South-west (30m)
• Orasaigh North-east

Barra

• Orosay North (38 m)
• Orasaigh Castlebay (west)
• Orasaigh Castlebay (east)
• Orasaigh East

See also

• Isleornsay
• Orsay (disambiguation)
• Orfasay
• List of ships named Oronsay

References

• Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004) The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh. Canongate.
• Ordnance Survey maps
• Watson, W.J. (2004) The History of the Celtic Place-names of Scotland. Reprinted with an introduction by Simon Taylor. Edinburgh. Birlinn.

Notes

1. Watson (2004) p. 505.