Aber Isle

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Aber Inch is the small island in front of the mainland in this picture.

Aber Inch or Aber Isle is a small island in Loch Lomond, forming part of the parish of Kilmaronock, Dunbartonshire. It is near the mouth of the River Endrick, by the abandoned village of Aber, and is half a mile from Clairinch.[1] Its name derives from the Celtic word for the mouth of a river.[2]

There are some trees on it including alders and a Scots pine.

Footnotes

  1. "Aber". The Islands of Loch lomond. http://www.lochlomond-islands.com/page57.html. Retrieved 18 February 2009. 
  2. Garnett, T. (1800). Observations on a Tour of the Highlands ... London. V.1. p. 40.

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