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 at Grid reference NM665115. The Hebrides (Inner Hebrides in red) The Inner Hebrides are a group of islands off the west coast of Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides. ... Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... The Garvellachs are a group of small islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. ... The Firth and other nearby waterways The Firth of Lorne is a body of water on Scotlands west coast, in Argyll and Bute. ... Tobermory with 700 people, the largest settlement on Mull, is home to the only whisky distillery on the island. ... Argyll, archaically Argyle (Airthir-Ghaidheal in Gaelic, translated as [the] East Gael, or [the] East Irish), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a traditional county of Scotland. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
The name is Gaelic for rough rocky mound. Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...
The Anglicised version of the name gives the whole group of islands its name, the Garvellachs.
Eileach, or more properly Aileach, is variously translated as a "mound " or "stony place," and is certainly connected with the obsolete word Al, a stone.
Of the Holy Islands, then, Eileach a' Naoimh, containing as it does the ruins of a monastic establishment of Columban or pre-Columban days, probably the oldest vestiges of the sort standing in Scotland, is by far the most interesting.
Eileach a' naoimh was undoubtedly the Ailech of St Brendan.
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