Loch Etive
Loch Etive from Sron nam Feannag seen, looking northeast
Reflections on Loch Etive
Loch Etive ( Scottish Gaelic, Loch Eite ) is a 31.6 km long fjord in the Scottish Argyll and Bute. It ends at Connel, 5 km north of Oban, in the wide channel between the Scottish mainland and the Isle of Mull. Loch Etive is between 1.2 km and 1.6 km wide and up to 200 m deep.
The name Etive probably means "Little Ugly ", after the name of a Gaelic deity who was associated with the fjord.
Geography
Form at the narrow mouth of Loch Etive at spring tide the Falls of Lora. At these offices on the south shore road A85 and the railway the fjord to the mouth of River Awe. Then these roads follow the river southeast, while the fjord bends in uninhabited mountains to the northeast. In the head end of the lake of Glen Etive flows. A street of Glen Coe ago provides access along this river.
A part of the North Shore is designated as a nature reserve, as a Special Area of Conservation. Especially the ancient sessile oak forests there should be so protected. A small colony of about 20 seals serves as the Loch Etive area.
Monuments
Just below the mouth of the hole lies Dunstaffnage Castle, until the 9th century, a castle of the Kingdom of Dál Riata. Maybe it was at times even be the center and housed the Stone of Scone, before he was taken to Scone Palace. The current ruins date from 1275 From 1881 there were from the castle tours for the holiday guests in Oban, which came as a holiday resort in fashion at that time. Boating led to the upper end of Loch Etive, followed by horse-drawn carriage to Glen Coe.
A few hundred meters from the castle is the medieval church ruins Dunstaffnage Chapel.
The Connel Bridge, a steel cantilever bridge over the Falls of Lora, 1903 was initially built as a railway bridge. From 1914 she served as both the road as well as a railroad bridge; it had to take turns to use road vehicles and trains the narrow bridge. Since 1966 serves exclusively as - still single track - road bridge.
In the parish Ardchattan on the north shore is the picturesque ruins of the monastery of St. Modan 's Priory. It was founded in the Choues in the 13th century by the Cistercian monks of the Order of the Abbaye du Val. According to tradition, was held there under Robert the Bruce the last Parliament in Gaelic.
At the Ardmucknish Bay sea side outside the Loch Etive the clad stoneware castle Beregonium which should not be confused with Rerigonium located at Loch Ryan, the city of the tribe of Novantae. The confusion arose from a misprint in an early edition of Ptolemy's Atlas Geographike Hyphegesis.
Name of ship
After Loch Etive the iron hull sailor is named, did Joseph Conrad on the service.
- Bay in Argyll and Bute
- Waters in Highland ( council area)
- Bay (Atlantic Ocean )