This is a list of islands called Eilean Fraoch or Fraoch Eilean, which provides an index for islands in Scotland with this and similar names. Literally meaning " heather island" in

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as ...

, it is a common Scottish island name. It may also represent the forename " Fraoch" from Gaelic mythology. "Eilean Fraoch" is also a nickname for the

Isle of Lewis The Isle of Lewis ( gd, Eilean Leòdhais) or simply Lewis ( gd, Leòdhas, ) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland. The two parts are frequently referred to as ...

in the Outer Hebrides and "Fraoch Eilean" was the

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of Clan MacNaughton. The

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of the current chief of

Clan Donald Clan Donald, also known as Clan MacDonald ( gd, Clann Dòmhnaill; Mac Dòmhnaill ), is a Highland Scottish clan and one of the largest Scottish clans. The Lord Lyon King of Arms, the Scottish official with responsibility for regulating heraldry i ...

includes the motto "Fraoch Eilean" which is set "on a compartment of rocks and heather proper issuant from the waves". Fraoch Eilean has the same meaning in English as

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Lingay Lingeigh or Lingay is an unpopulated islet in the Outer Hebrides. It lies towards the southern end of the archipelago, just north of Rosinish and south of Vatersay The island of Vatersay (; gd, Bhatarsaigh) is the southernmost and wester ...

, island names of Norse derivation, also commonly found in Scotland.

Eilean Fraoch

* Eilean Fraoch on

Loch Avich Loch of Avich is a large freshwater loch that lies approximately west of Loch Awe in Argyll and Bute in Scotland. It is the second biggest loch in the Etive basin after Loch Awe. It trends east-northeast, west-southwest and is narrowly triangula ...

* Eilean Fraoich,

Burnt Islands The Burnt Islands ( gd, Na h-Eileanan Loisgte) are three small islands that lie in the Kyles of Bute, on the Cowal Peninsula, Argyll and Bute, on the West coast of the Scottish mainland. The islands are located at . Individually the Islands ...

* Eilean Fraoch, in

Fionn Loch Fionn (, ) is a masculine given name in Irish and Scottish Gaelic. In English, it is pronounced "Finn" ( ) or "Fee-on" ( ). It is derived from a byname meaning "white" or "fair-haired". It is the modern variant of Old and Middle Irish: Find and Fin ...

Wester Ross Wester Ross () is an area of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland in the council area of Highland. The area is loosely defined, and has never been used as a formal administrative region in its own right, but is generally regarded as lying to the ...

Fraoch Eilean

Fraoch Eilean, Loch Awe Fraoch Eilean/Ejlean is a small island situated at the northern end of Loch Awe, a freshwater lake in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is notable for being the site of a medieval royal castle, now ruined, which was given into the keeping of Clan ...

Fraoch Eilean, Loch Lomond Fraoch Eilean is a small island in Loch Lomond, Scotland. Its name means "heather island" in Scottish Gaelic. It is near Luss on the mainland, and according to legend, was used as its prison, indeed on Charles Ross's 1792 ''Plan of Dunbartonshir ...

near

Luss Luss (''Lus'', 'herb' in Gaelic) is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, on the west bank of Loch Lomond. The village is within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. History Historically in the County of Dunbarton, its origina ...

Am Fraoch Eilean Am Fraoch Eilean is an uninhabited island in the Sound of Jura, in the council area of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is from Ardfin on Jura. Brosdale Island is located to the east. The name is Scottish Gaelic and means "the heather isle" and wa ...

, or Fraoch Eilean off Jura, the location of

Claig Castle Claig Castle was a stronghold of the Clan Donald or MacDonald in the south of Scotland. History The castle was once a massive fort described as a ''sea fortress'', which allowed the Macdonald Lord of the Isles to dominate and control the sea tra ...

* The name of two islets off

Luing Luing ( ; Gaelic: ''Luinn'') is one of the Slate Islands, Firth of Lorn, in the west of Argyll in Scotland, about south of Oban. The island has an area of and is bounded by several small skerries and islets. It has a population of around 200 peo ...

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* Fraoch-eilean, an inhabited island north of

Grimsay Grimsay ( gd, Griomasaigh) is a tidal island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Geography Grimsay is the largest of the low-lying stepping-stones which convey the Oitir Mhòr (North Ford) causeway, a arc of single track road linking North Ui ...

at . * Am Fraoch-eilean, an uninhabited rocky islet at the mouth of Loch nan Ceall () near

Arisaig Arisaig ( gd, Àrasaig) is a village in Lochaber, Inverness-shire. It lies south of Mallaig on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, within the Rough Bounds. Arisaig is also the traditional name for part of the surrounding peninsula south ...

Other uses

* "Fraoch Eilean" is the name of a

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played on the

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."The Glencoe Collection of Bagpipe Music: Book 1"
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