Inchcruin

Inchcruin is one of an island group just south of Luss. It is {{convert|3/4|mi|km|1|abbr=off}} long, and {{convert|50|ft|m|abbr=off}} in elevation at its highest point.{{cite web|url=http://www.incallander.co.uk/islands.htm |title=Stories and Facts about the Islands of Loch Lomond |publisher=Callander, Trossachs and Loch Lomond Guide |accessdate=2008-10-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921112627/http://www.incallander.co.uk/islands.htm |archivedate=2008-09-21 }} Its name means "round island" in the Scottish Gaelic language, although it is not round, but a rather jagged shape.{{cite web| url=http://www.loch-lomond.net/islands/inchcruin.html| title=Inchcruin - Loch Lomond| publisher=Loch Lomond.net| accessdate=2008-10-29}} It has a couple of beaches, and is wooded, with some open fields.

Only a very narrow channel, called the Geggles separates Inchcruin from Inchmoan. At only {{convert|3-4|ft|cm|-1|abbr=on}} deep, it is sometimes possible to wade between the islands.{{cite web| url=http://www.lochlomond-islands.com/page52a.html| title=Inchcruin - The Round Island| publisher=Islands of Loch Lomond| accessdate=2008-10-29}}Worsley, Harry Loch Lomond: The Loch, the Lairds and the Legends {{ISBN|978-1-898169-34-5}} Lindsay Publications (Glasgow) 1988

The travel writer, H.V. Morton visited Loch Lomond in the 1930s, and mentions Inchcruin briefly and wrongly as "Inchcruim".Morton, H. V. In Scotland Again (1933), Methuen London - p145

In the 18th century it was used as an asylum for the insane.Garnett, T. (1800). Observations on a Tour of the Highlands ... London. V.1. p. 42. It contains one house, around 200 years old, which was inhabited in the past by people who farmed on the island. It is now a holiday retreat.

The island is classified by the National Records of Scotland as an inhabited island that "had no usual residents at the time of either the 2001 or 2011 censuses."{{NRS1C}}The National Records of Scotland (2013) referred to "Inchruin", which is presumably a typographical error.

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