Strathaird

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Strathaird is a peninsula on the island of Skye, Scotland, situated between Loch Slapin and Loch Scavaig on the south coast.[http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst6461.html "Strathaird"] Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 24 November 2009.

W. H. Murray said that "Skye is sixty miles long, but what might be its breadth is beyond the ingenuity of man to state".Murray (1966) p. 146. Strathaird is however a straightforward triangular shape with the apex to the south where the lochs meet. Its base to the north is less clear-cut and is contained within the complex of the Cuillin range of mountains. The Munro Blà Bheinn that reaches {{convert|928|m|ft}} is within Strathaird.

It is the smallest and least populous of Skye's main peninsulas, containing only the hamlets of Elgol, Kirkibost, Kilmarie, Drinan and Glasnakille, which are accessed via the B8083 road. The ruins of the Iron Age hill fort Dun Ringill are east of Kirkibost on the shores of Loch Slapin. The Strathaird peninsula was historically a heartland of Clan Mackinnon and tradition holds that Dun Ringill was once the seat of the clan.Scotland an Oxford Archaeological Guide. (1998) Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-288002-0}}

The Strathaird Estate was bought by musician Ian Anderson, the frontman for Jethro Tull, in 1978. Anderson started a salmon farming business at Strathaird, which expanded throughout Scotland. The business was reportedly worth over £10 million by the mid 1990s, though much of it has now been sold off.

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|title=Ian Anderson: When he who pays the piper doesn't get to call the tune then who's as thick as a brick?

|author=Maggie Lee

|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ian-anderson-when-he-who-pays-the-piper-doesnt-get-to-call-the-tune-then-whos-as-thick-as-a-brick-5334743.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ian-anderson-when-he-who-pays-the-piper-doesnt-get-to-call-the-tune-then-whos-as-thick-as-a-brick-5334743.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live

|newspaper=The Independent

|date=26 August 2007

|accessdate=22 February 2011

}}

Anderson sold the estate to the John Muir Trust in 1994, for around £750,000.

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|title=Pop singer sells Skye estate to trust

|author=Elizabeth Buie

|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/pop-singer-sells-skye-estate-to-trust-1.477052

|newspaper=The Herald

|date=

|accessdate=22 February 2011

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The Trust also own the neighbouring estates of Torrin and Sconser.{{cite web |url=http://www.jmt.org/skye-estates.asp |title=Skye Estates owned by the John Muir Trust |date=28 January 2011 |publisher=John Muir Trust |accessdate=22 February 2011}}