Eyebroughy
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Eyebroughy (or archaically Ibris; NT493859) is a small, rocky islet in the Firth of Forth, 200 m off East Lothian, Scotland.
Location
Eyebroughy sits {{convert|200|m|yards}} off the East Lothian coast, {{convert|3.5|km|miles}} to the north northeast of the village of Gullane and {{convert|5|km|miles}} west of North Berwick. It is in the parish of Dirleton and sits opposite the western part of Dirleton's East Links, at low tide it may be possible to walk to the island. It formed part of the estate of Archerfield.{{cite web | url = https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/east-lothian-os-name-books-1853-1854/east-lothian-volume-23/14 | title = OS1/15/23/14 | accessdate = 21 March 2020 | publisher = Scotland's Places}}
Environment
It is an RSPB reserve, and the birds breeding on the island include common eider, great cormorant and herring gull, wintering birds include ruddy turnstone and purple sandpiper.{{cite book | editor1 = Ian J. Andrews | editor2 = Keith Gillon | year = 2019 | title = Lothian Bird report 2017 | publisher = Lothian Branch, Scottish Ornithologists Club}} The island is formed from an intrusion of trachytes from the lower Carboniferous.{{cite web |url = https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst1602.html | title = Eyebroughy | accessdate = 21 March 2020 | publisher = Gazetteer for Scotland}} Eyebroughy is part of the Firth of Forth Islands Species Protection Area.{{cite web | url = https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/8500 | title = Firth of Forth Islands SPA | accessdate = 21 March 2020 | publisher = Scottish Natural Heritage}} It has been described as small and very narrow.{{cite web | url = https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/scotland/pp555-584#h3-0002 | title = Topographical Dictionary of Scotland | accessdate = 21 March 2020 | publisher = British Library}}
Shipwrecks
Two shipwrecks are noted for Eybroughy. The first was the 94-ton wooden schooner Jane which was stranded on Eyebroughy, with a cargo of alum and a single passenger on its way from Goole to Leith, on 18 December 1892.{{cite web| url = https://canmore.org.uk/site/251751/jane-eyebroughy-firth-of-forth | title = Jane: Eyebroughy, Firth Of Forth | accessdate = 21 March 2020 | publisher = Historic Environment Scotland}} The second is that of the 310-ton lighter Bertha, which loaded with salvage equipment. This vessel was lost on 21 December 1900 as it driven away from a stranded steamer and ran into Eyebroughy.{{cite web| url = https://canmore.org.uk/site/200249/bertha-eyebroughy-firth-of-forth | title = Bertha: Eyebroughy, Firth Of Forth | accessdate = 21 March 2020 | publisher = Historic Environment Scotland}}
Literary references
The Scottish historical novelist Nigel Tranter, who lived in nearby Luffness, mentioned Eyebroughy in at least two of his novels, Drug on the Market{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gk_GlIDZdGYC&dq=Eyebroughy+Tranter | author = Nigel Tranter | title = Drug on the Market | year = 1963 | publisher = Hachette UK, 2013 | isbn = 1444768697}} and Flowers of Chivalry.{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wNXc7nCJeUQC&pg=PT114&lpg=PT114&dq=Eyebroughy+Tranter#q=Eyebroughy%20Tranter | title = Flowers of Chivalry | author = Nigel Tranter | date = 1987 | publisher = Hachette UK, 2012 | isbn = 1444757636}}
Notes
External links
- [http://www.electricscotland.com/history/gazetteer/vol2page559.htm Eyebroughy at electricscotland.com]
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