:''"Rough Island" is also used as a translation of "
Garbh Eilean", a common Scottish name for islands''
Rough Island is a 20-acre (8 ha) uninhabited
tidal island
A tidal island is a raised area of land within a waterbody, which is connected to the larger mainland by a natural isthmus or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide, causing the land to switch between being ...
located in the
Rough Firth off the
Solway Firth
The Solway Firth is an inlet on the west coast of Great Britain, forming part of the border between England and Scotland. The firth (a Scottish term for an inlet of the sea) divides Cumbria (including the Solway Plain) from Dumfries and Gallow ...
, Scotland, in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, the same region where the
River Urr flows into the
Solway. The isle of Rough is 79 feet (24 metres) at its highest point.
Accessibility
Accessible across the causeway from
Kippford when the tides allow or across the mudflats from
Rockcliffe, the isle of Rough can be walked to from the Scottish mainland. As the island is a
bird sanctuary
An animal sanctuary is a facility where animals are brought to live and to be protected for the rest of their lives. In addition, sanctuaries are an experimental staging ground for transformative human–animal relations. There are five types of ...
visitors should avoid travelling to the island during the months of May and June to avoid disturbing the nesting
oystercatcher
The oystercatchers are a group of waders forming the family (biology), family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, ''Haematopus''. They are found on coasts worldwide apart from the polar regions and some tropical regions of Africa and Sout ...
s and
ringed plover
The common ringed plover or ringed plover (''Charadrius hiaticula'') is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae. It breeds across much of northern Eurasia, as well as Greenland.
Taxonomy
The common ringed plover was Species description, f ...
s.
The islands' causeway is flooded and underwater for 5 (five) hours during high tide and visitors to the island need to take this into account when travelling there.
See also
*
List of outlying islands of Scotland
The outlying islands of Scotland are not part of the larger archipelagos and island groups of Scotland—the Hebrides, the Northern Isles or the Islands of the Forth and Islands of the Clyde, Clyde estuaries. None of these islands are currentl ...
References
External links
National Trust for Scotland page*
Islands of the Solway
Tidal islands of Scotland
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