Caolas
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| Caolas Gaelic: An Caolas | |
| Inverness-shire | |
|---|---|
 Road and house at Caolas | |
| Location | |
| Island: | Vatersay |
| Grid reference: | NL629973 |
| Location: | 56°56’38"N, 7°32’38"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Isle of Barra |
| Postcode: | HS9 |
| Dialling code: | 01871 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Na h-Eileanan Siar |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Na h-Eileanan an Iar |
Caolas is a small settlement on the island of Vatersay, an island belonging to Inverness-shire among the Outer Hebrides. Caolas and the whole island are within the parish of Barra.[1]
The name Caolas is a Gaelic word, which means "straits" and is frequently rendered as "kyles" in English.
Caolas is the westernmost inhabited village in Scotland and in the whole of Great Britain if taken with its islands. Until St Kilda was evacuated in 1930, its sole village claimed this title.
The most western settlement in the United Kingdom, since the evacuation of St Kilda, is Belleek in Fermanagh.
Outside links
 |
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Caolas) |
- CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Vatersay, Caolas
- CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Dun A' Chaolais
- CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of North Vatersay