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Garbh Eileach

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Gaelic name
  
Garbh Eileach

OS grid reference
  
NM665115

Highest elevation
  
110 m

Area
  
142 ha

Lieutenancy area
  
Argyll and Bute

Meaning of name
  
rough rock

Area rank
  
127=

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Council area
  
Argyll and Bute

Garbh Eileach

Island groups
  
British Isles, Inner Hebrides

Garbh Eileach is an uninhabited island in the Inner Hebrides of the west coast of Scotland. It is the largest of the Garvellachs and lies in the Firth of Lorne between Mull and Argyll.

Map of Garbh Eileach, United Kingdom

The name is Gaelic for "rough rock". The Anglicised version of the name gives the whole group of islands its name, the Garvellachs.

There is a small ruined fort above a bay on the eastern coast.

References

Garbh Eileach Wikipedia