Eilean Ruairidh Mòr

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|Image=Maree Rhuairidh.jpg

|celtic name=Eilean Ruairidh Mòr

|norse name=

|meaning of name=Island of Big Rory/Roderick

|area=38 ha[http://www.argyll-yachtcharters.co.uk/Scottish%20Islands.pdf Rick Livingstone’s Tables of the Islands of Scotland] (pdf) Argyll Yacht Charters. Retrieved 12 Dec 2011.

|area rank= (Freshwater: 10)

|highest elevation= 51 m

|Population=0

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|island group=Loch Maree

|local authority=Highland

|references=2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland

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Eilean Ruairidh Mòr is a forested island in Loch Maree, Wester Ross, Scotland. 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, as is the Slattadale Forest on the southern shore of Loch Maree.Ordnance Survey. 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.{{cite web| url=https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/5046| title=Loch Maree Islands National Nature Reserve| publisher=NatureScot| accessdate=8 September 2020}}

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.{{cite web| url=http://www.electricscotland.com/history/gazetteer/vol2page547.htm| title=Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland| publisher=Electric Scotland| accessdate=15 December 2007}}

Footnotes

Category:Islands of Loch Maree

Category:Uninhabited islands of Highland (council area)