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Eileanan Chearabhaigh is a collection of small uninhabited tidal islands off the south east coast of
Benbecula
Benbecula (; gd, Beinn nam Fadhla or ) is an island of the Outer Hebrides in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland. In the 2011 census, it had a resident population of 1,283 with a sizable percentage of Roman Catholics. It is in a ...
in the
Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The English language name Keiravagh Islands is sometimes used.
[Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 249]
Bounded by the tidal waters of Loch Chearabhaigh to the north and Loch a' Laip to the south, the land area of the group defies a simple description. At low tide the islands form a peninsula with a total area of about , which is connected to Benbecula by drying sands. At high tide the connection to Benbecula is lost and a number of small islets stretching for over from east to west appear, the largest of which is about in extent. None of these individual islets are named by the
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was a ...
. Argyll Yacht Charters supply a table of islands statistics that list the "Kiervagh islands" as being in extent, although the method of measurement is not explicit.
[Rick Livingstone’s Tables of the Islands of Scotland]
(pdf) Argyll Yacht Charters. Retrieved 12 Dec 2011.
The uninhabited island of
Wiay lies to the south and fish farming is undertaken in the productive waters of Loch a' Laip and Loch Chearabhaigh.
[ Loch a' Laip also provides shelter for visiting water craft but the area is strewn with rocks and skerries. There is a pier on Benbecula served by a track at the western end of Eileanan Chearabhaigh and another to the south at Eilean na Cille, although their use without local knowledge is not advised.][Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 250]
See also
Nearby islands with a similarly complex geography:
* Ceallasaigh Mòr
Ceallasaigh Mòr (or Keallasay More) is a low-lying island in Loch Maddy off North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. This an area of shallow lagoons filled and drained by the tides each day. Ceallasaigh Beag
Ceallasaigh Beag (or Keal ...
* Eileanan Iasgaich
Na h-Eileanan Iasgaich comprise a small uninhabited archipelago in Loch Boisdale, in the south east of the island of South Uist, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The individual islands are separated from one another at high tide, but connected t ...
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Uist islands
Tidal islands of Scotland
Uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides