Balnakeil
| Balnakeil Gaelic: Baile na Cill | |
| Sutherland | |
|---|---|
 Ruined church at Balnakeil | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NC394678 |
| Location: | 58°34’34"N, 4°46’5"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Durness |
| Postcode: | IV27 4 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Highland |
Balnakeil is a hamlet in the parish of Durness, in the very north-west corner of Sutherland.
The hamlet stands on the county's north coast, around three-quarters of a mile north-west of Durness itself. The ruins of Balnakeil Church are a scheduled monument.
The Kyle of Durness is west of Balnakeil which gives its name to Balnakeil Bay, a bay two miles wide, and into which the Kyle opens.[1] The peninsula of Faraid Head is to the north of Balnakeil. It was the site of a 1950s radar station and remains the range control for Ministry of Defence bombing operations in the Cape Wrath Training Area to the west.[2]
Three small lochs are to the south of Balnakeil: Loch Croispol, Loch Borralie and Loch Caladail. Durness Golf Course is to the south-west.[3]
See also
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Balnakeil) |
References
- ↑ Groome.F.H (1885) 'Parish of Durness', Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, (available online). Retrieved 2013-02-20.
- ↑ RAF Faraid Head ('RAI') CEW R10 ROTOR Radar station, Subterranea Britannica, 2004-06-15. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
- ↑ Loch Borralie, Kyle of Durness, Historic Scotland, 2003. Retrieved 2013-02-20.