Caolas

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Caolas
Gaelic: An Caolas
Inverness-shire
Caolas Bhatarsaigh - geograph.org.uk - 1367873.jpg
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.

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References

  1. Caolas - Scottish Places