Kylestrome Edrachillis Bay geograph-3199374-by-Ben-Brooksbank

Eddrachillis Bay (Scottish Gaelic: Eadar Dà Chaolas- "between two kyles",

Kylesku Kylesku ( gd, An Caolas Cumhang) is a small, remote fishing hamlet in Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands. Until 1984, it was the site of a free ferry. Village Kylesku is located where Loch Glencoul and Loch Gleann Dubh join to form a sea pa ...

and Laxford) is a bay on the north-west coast of Sutherland, Scotland. It lies north of

Assynt Assynt ( gd, Asainn or ) is a sparsely populated area in the south-west of Sutherland, lying north of Ullapool on the west coast of Scotland. Assynt is known for its landscape and its remarkable mountains, which have led to the area, along with ...

and is at the mouth of the

Loch a' Chàirn Bhàin Loch a' Chàirn Bhàin (Gaelic for "White Cairn Loch"), or Loch Cairnbawn, is a sea inlet off Eddrachillis Bay on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands north of Ullapool Ullapool (; gd, Ulapul ) is a village and port located in Northern S ...

, also known as the Loch Cairnbawn. It is neighboured by Eddrachillis, of which namesakes are shared. Very Rev

Mackintosh MacKay Mackintosh MacKay (1793 – 1873) was a Scottish minister and author who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1849. He edited the Highland Society's prodigious Gaelic dictionary ('Dictionarium Scoto-Celt ...

(1793-1873)

Moderator of the General Assembly The moderator of the General Assembly is the chairperson of a General Assembly, the highest court of a Presbyterian or Reformed church. Kirk sessions and presbyteries may also style the chairperson as moderator. The Oxford Dictionary states t ...

of the Free Church of Scotland in 1849, was born here.

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