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

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as "tidal" or "ebb island".Watson (2004) p. 505. The many islands include:

Inner Hebrides

Eilean Ornsay Eilean Ornsay is a rocky and uninhabited island located off the south-western coast of the Inner Hebridean island of Coll. It is situated on the western side of Loch Eatharna and is joined to Coll at low tide. Evidence of the dun and other archa ...

, off Coll *

Oronsay, Colonsay Oronsay ( gd, Orasaigh), also sometimes spelt and pronounced ''Oransay'' by the local community, is a small tidal island south of Colonsay in the Scottish Inner Hebrides with an area of . The island rises to a height of at Beinn Orasaigh and ...

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 *

Oronsay, Loch Bracadale Oronsay ( gd, Orasaigh) is an uninhabited tidal island in Loch Bracadale on the west coast of Skye, Scotland. It is c.1,000 metres (0.7miles) long by 220m wide running approximately north-east to south west. At low tide (approx. below 4 met ...

, Skye *

Oronsay, Loch Sunart Oronsay is an uninhabited island in Loch Sunart, Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the ...

(enclosing Loch Drumbuie), Morvern

Outer Hebrides

Lewis

* Orasaigh off

Leurbost Leurbost () is a village on the east coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It is approximately south of Stornoway on the road to Harris. It is the main settlement in the area of the island known as North Lochs. Leurbost ...

() * Eilean Orasaigh near Cromor ()

North Uist

* Orasaigh () N of Vallay *

Oronsay, Outer Hebrides Oronsay (Gaelic Orasaigh) is a tidal island off North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. Lying to the north of Vallaquie Strand, the island has been uninhabited since the Highland Clearances The Highland Clearances ( gd, Fuadaichean nan Gàidheal , ...

() 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 Orosay ( gd, Orasaigh) is a small uninhabited tidal island in the Sound of Barra lying at the north end of Traigh Mhòr, the "big beach" on the north east coast of Barra. It is one of ten islands in the Sound of Barra, a Site of Community Impo ...

() North (38 m) * Orasaigh () Castlebay (west) * Orasaigh () Castlebay (east) * Orasaigh () East

References

* Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004) ''The Scottish Islands''. Edinburgh. Canongate. *

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maps * 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