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Eilean Ruairidh Mòr is a forested island in
Loch Maree Loch Maree () is a loch in Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. At long and with a maximum width of , it is the fourth-largest freshwater loch in Scotland; it is the largest north of Loch Ness. Its surface area is . Loch Maree c ...
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. Its name was formerly anglicised as "Ellan-Rorymore".Wilson, Rev. John ''The Gazetteer of Scotland'' (Edinburgh, 1882) Published by W. & A.K. Johnstone The island is owned by
Forestry and Land Scotland Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) () is an executive agency responsible for managing and promoting Scotland's national forest estate: land, predominantly covered in forest, owned by the Scottish Government on behalf of the nation. It was formed o ...
, as is the Slattadale Forest on the southern shore of Loch Maree.
Ordnance Survey The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of ...
. ''Landranger'' (1:50000) Series. Sheet 19: Gairloch and Ullapool.
The islands in Loch Maree are among the least disturbed in Britain and are managed as a national nature reserve.


History

Eilean Ruairidh Mòr was planted with pines in about 1815. There are remains of a subterranean circular structure, similar to a Scandinavian dùn or burgh. The ancestors of the Mackenzies of Gairloch held it as a place of security from the attacks of the Macleods.


Footnotes

Islands of Loch Maree Uninhabited islands of Highland (council area) {{highland-geo-stub