Portskerra

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Portskerra
Gaelic: Port Sgeire
Sutherland

Portskerra Pier
Location
Grid reference: NC874661
Location: 58°34’7"N, 3°56’14"W
Data
Post town: Melvich
Postcode: KW14
Local Government
Council: Highland
Parliamentary
constituency:
Caithness, Sutherland
and Easter Ross

Portskerra is a hamlet that overlooks Melvich Bay on the north coast of Sutherland, and therefore of Great Britain. The village of Melvich is less than a mile to the south-east.

The name of the place is from the Old Norse language by way of Gaelic: the Gaelic name is Port Sgeire, meaning 'Skerry harbour'.

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