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
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as "tidal" or "ebb island".
[Watson (2004) p. 505.] The many islands include:
Inner Hebrides
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Eilean Ornsay, off Coll
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Oronsay, Colonsay
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Ornsay
Ornsay is a small tidal island to the east of the Sleat peninsula on the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
Description
The island provides good shelter to a natural harbour which is overlooked by the village of Isleornsay. The " ...
, by Isleornsay (Eilean Iarmain), Sound of Sleat
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Oronsay, Loch Bracadale, Skye
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Oronsay, Loch Sunart (enclosing Loch Drumbuie), Morvern
Outer Hebrides
Lewis
* Orasaigh off
Leurbost ()
* Eilean Orasaigh near Cromor ()
North Uist
* Orasaigh () N of Vallay
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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
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Orosay () North (38 m)
* Orasaigh () Castlebay (west)
* Orasaigh () Castlebay (east)
* Orasaigh () East
See also
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Isleornsay
Isleornsay (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Iarmain) is a village lying off the main Armadale to Sleat road (the A851) on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It overlooks, but is not upon, the island of Ornsay. The island itself shelters one of the best natur ...
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Orsay (disambiguation)
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Orfasay
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List of ships named Oronsay
References
* Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004) ''The Scottish Islands''. Edinburgh. Canongate.
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Watson, W.J. (2004) ''The History of the Celtic Place-names of Scotland.'' Reprinted with an introduction by Simon Taylor. Edinburgh. Birlinn. {{ISBN, 1-84158-323-5
Notes
Scottish Island set index articles