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The freshwater islands in Scotland include those within freshwater lochs and rivers – including tidal areas, so the islands may not always be surrounded by freshwater. It has been estimated that there are at least 31,460 freshwater lochs in Scotland and that 1.9% of the land surface is covered by fresh waters. The distribution has a north west to south east gradient with the highest concentrations occurring in the islands of the Outer Hebrides.[1]{{refn|"Loch" is a Scottish Gaelic word for both a lake and a fiord that has been borrowed by Scots and Scottish English to apply to such bodies of water. The Lake of Menteith is the only natural body of water called a "lake" in Scotland.[2] |group=Note}} The more notable freshwater islands include Lochindorb Castle Island, Loch Leven Castle Island, St Serf's Inch, and Inchmahome, each of which have had a role to play in Scottish history.[3][4][5][6] Inchmurrin, the largest freshwater island in the British Isles, is in Loch Lomond, which contains thirty or more other islands.[7]{{refn|Some of the islets in Loch Lomond may only appear when the water levels are low[8] and although many sources provide a figure of up to sixty islands[9] this may derive from a poetic 9th century description. Other sources suggest a total of 30 or 38 islands.[10][11]|group=Note}} Various names are used repeatedly. "Inch" or Innis is a Scots word that can mean "island" (although it is also used for terra firma surrounded by marsh). Similarly, Eilean is the Gaelic for "island". "-holm" is a common suffix for offshore islands in the north of Scotland and is derived from the Old Norse holmr, meaning "a small and rounded islet".[12][13][14] This list excludes artificial crannógs and the numerous small freshwater islands with no recorded name.{{refn| Crannógs are excluded as they are both artificial and very numerous. There are at least 600 of these small prehistoric structures in Scotland.[15]|group=Note}}{{refn|There is a significant difference between the Ordnance Survey (OS) treatment of freshwater and offshore islands. See for example Loch Snigiscleit at {{gbmapping|NF802254}}. If the islands here were offshore it is virtually certain that there would be three substantial named islands and probably half a dozen named smaller ones. There are several examples – Loch Druidibeag has two named islands and about a dozen un-named. It is not clear whether this because the OS only chose to list a few larger ones and those identified by RCAHMS, or if for some reason local people did not give names to smaller islands in lochs. The latter is unlikely although these islands offer much less of threat to fishermen and thus there is less of an imperative to be aware of them. |group=Note}} Larger islandsThis table includes all of the freshwater islands that exceed {{convert|35|ha|acre}} in size and/or are populated.
Inchlonaig and Inchcruin{{refn|Referred to by the National Records of Scotland (2013) as "Inchruin", which is presumably a typographical error.|group=Note}} are classified by the National Records of Scotland as "inhabited islands but had no usual residents at the time of either the 2001 or 2011 censuses."[17] It is likely that Contin Island and Eilean Aigas are inhabited, at least from time to time as well, although they were not listed as such by the Census in 2001[19] or 2011. In mainland lochsLoch Awe is Scotland's longest loch and abounds with islands and crannógs. Several of the islands are, or have in the past, been inhabited; there are two castles and the remains of a chapel on the islands.[20] Inistrynich, Eilean na Maodail, Eilean Dubh and Liever Island are all promontories as opposed to islands despite their names. The loch's water levels have fluctuated so some of them may have been islands in recent history, as the promontory on which Kilchurn Castle stands once was.[21]There may be up to sixty islands in the Loch Lomond including Inchmurrin, the largest freshwater island anywhere in the Britain and Ireland, and Inchconnachan, which has hosted a small population of Red-necked Wallaby since at least 1975.[22][23] The isolated strongholds of Lochindorb Castle and Loch an Eilein Castle were once in the hands of the 14th century nobleman Alexander Stewart, the infamous "Wolf of Badenoch".[24][25] There are numerous unnamed small islands in mainland lochs, including those where the water level has been artificially raised by the creation of dams for the production of hydro-electricity. This process has created new islands that would previously have been small eminences.[26]
On offshore islandsThere are relatively few genuine islands in the lochs of the Inner Hebrides, many of those that do exist being artificial crannógs. By contrast there are innumerable small islands in the estimated 7,500 lochs of the Eilean Siar,[1] only a small proportion of which are named by the Ordnance Survey. The Orkney and Shetland archipelagos to the north are similarly lacking in freshwater islands. Law Ting Holm is the former location of the national þing, or Norse parliament of Shetland.[28]
In riversNo part of Scotland is more than {{convert|80.4|km|mi|0}} from the sea[34] and as a result Scotland's rivers are neither very wide nor long (although Scotland has many substantial salt water estuaries called firths). These are islands in freshwater, or where indicated, occasionally reached by high tides and in brackish water.
There are several former islands in the Tay, created by natural silting and artificial reclamation including: Big Island, Bloody Inches near Murthly, North Inch and South Inch in Perth, Richards Islands, Sleepless Inch and The Inch near Inchtuthil.{{refn|North and South Inch are reclaimed parks on the right bank of the Tay, now within the bounds of the town of Perth.[35] Sleepless Island is now a sewage works at {{gbm4ibx|NO146220}}[36] Bloody Inches is at {{gbm4ibx|NO139391}} and The Inch at {{gbm4ibx|NO106391}}. Big Island is a former gravel bank at {{gbm4ibx|NN992494}} and Richards Islands are further upstream on the River Tummel (a tributary of the Tay) at {{gbm4ibx|NN955557}}[37][38][39]|group=Note}} See also{{Commons category|Lochs of Scotland}}
References and footnotes
1. ^1 "Botanical survey of Scottish freshwater lochs" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211946/http://www.snh.org.uk/publications/on-line/advisorynotes/4/4.htm |date=2016-03-03 }} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303211946/http://www.snh.org.uk/publications/on-line/advisorynotes/4/4.htm |date=2016-03-03 }} SNH Information and Advisory Note Number 4. Retrieved 1 January 2010. 2. ^"Inchmahome Priory" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407185448/http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/scotland/perthshire/featured-sites/inchmahome-priory.html |date=2010-04-07 }} Mysterious Britain. Retrieved 26 April 2010. 3. ^1 Coventry (2008) p. 154 4. ^"Lochindorb Castle" Canmore. Retrieved 28 April 2010. 5. ^Barrow, G.W.S. (2003) "The Judex" pp. 57–67 6. ^"Inchmahome Priory" Historic Scotland. Retrieved 28 April 2010. 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.loch-lomond.net/islands/inchmurrin.html |title=Loch Lomond Islands – Inchmurrin |publisher=Loch Lomond.net |accessdate=23 August 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928075358/http://www.loch-lomond.net/islands/inchmurrin.html |archivedate=September 28, 2007 }} 8. ^"Loch Lomond Islands" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091118054050/http://www.loch-lomond.me.uk/islands.htm |date=2009-11-18 }} loch-lomond.me.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2010. 9. ^For example, "Loch lomond" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722172907/http://www.goxplore.net/guides/Loch_lomond |date=2011-07-22 }} goxplore.net Retrieved 29 April 2010. 10. ^"The Loch" Loch Lomond.net. Retrieved 23 January 2010. 11. ^"The islands on Loch Lomond " visit-lochlomond.com. Retrieved 28 April 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513135443/http://www.visit-lochlomond.com/74-the_islands_on_loch_lomond_.html |date=May 13, 2008 }} 12. ^Mac an Tàilleir (2003) various pages. 13. ^For example, Haswell-Smith (2004) pp. 96, 104, 375. 14. ^Fellows-Jensen, Gillian "On dalr and holmr in the place-names of Britain" Ramsdale.org. Retrieved 29 April 2010. 15. ^"Crannogs" BBC. Retrieved 23 January 2010. 16. ^Estimates based on Ordnance Survey maps and General Register Office for Scotland statistics unless otherwise stated. 17. ^1 {{NRS1C}} 18. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Rick Livingstone’s Tables of the Islands of Scotland (pdf) Argyll Yacht Charters. Retrieved 12 Dec 2011. 19. ^{{GRO10}} 20. ^See Ordnance Survey maps at for example {{gbm4ibx|NN073220}} and {{gbm4ibx|NN102247}}. 21. ^Coventry (2008) p. 78. 22. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.loch-lomond.net/islands/inchconnachan.html |title=Loch Lomond Islands: Inchconnachan |publisher=Loch Lomond.net |accessdate=25 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609142648/http://www.loch-lomond.net/islands/inchconnachan.html |archivedate=June 9, 2009 }} 23. ^{{cite journal | last = Welch | first = D. |author2=Carss, D.N. |author3=Gornall, J. |author4=Manchester, S.J. |author5=Marquiss, M. |author6=Preston, C. D. |author7=Telfer, M.G. |author8=Arnold, H.R. |author9=Holbrook, J. | year = 2001 | title = An Audit of Alien Species in Scotland. Review no 139 | location = Perth | publisher = Scottish Natural Heritage}} 24. ^Grant (1993) pp. 144–45. 25. ^"Loch an Eilein Castle" Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 25 January 2010. 26. ^See for example Loch Benevean in Glen Affric at {{gbm4ibx|NH256267}}. 27. ^"Duke Murdoch's Castle (remains of)". Wikimapia quoting census records. Retrieved 29 July 2013. 28. ^1 "Thing" Shetlopedia. Retrieved 3 August 2010. 29. ^"Lewis, Great Bernera, Loch Baravat, Dun Baravat" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719234142/http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=4089 |date=2011-07-19 }} Scotlandsplaces.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 January 2010. 30. ^Murray and Pullar (1910) [https://archive.is/20120907113515/http://www.nls.uk/maps/bathymetric/text.cfm?seq=1486 "Lochs of Lewis"] Page 208, Volume II, Part II. National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 20 December 2009. 31. ^See this photograph: [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1363488 "Saltwater Dam"] Geograph. Retrieved 1 January 2010. 32. ^This dùn is probably the remains of a broch. See "South Uist, Eochar, Dun Na Buail' Uachdraich" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719234006/http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=9918 |date=2011-07-19 }} {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719234006/http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=9918 |date=2011-07-19 }} Scotlands Places. Retrieved 15 December 2009. 33. ^Clickimin Broch Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 25 April 2010. 34. ^"Snap Facts" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120143231/http://www.loveofscotland.com/gazet.html |date=2008-11-20 }} loveofscotland.com. Retrieved 28 April 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120143231/http://www.loveofscotland.com/gazet.html |date=November 20, 2008 }} 35. ^"Perth" Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 29 April 2010. 36. ^" Wildlife on the Tay" perthcity.co.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2010. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810074614/http://www.perthcity.co.uk/index.asp?pg=71 |date=August 10, 2011 }} 37. ^Gilvear D. J., Davies J. R., and Winterbottom S. J. (1994) "Mechanisms of floodbank failure during large flood events on the rivers Tay and Earn, Scotland" Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. Geological Society of London 27 issue 4. pp. 319-332. Retrieved 29 April 2010. 38. ^Gilvear, David J. (1993) "River management and conservation issues on formerly braided river systems; the case of the River Tay, Scotland". Geological Society. London. Special Publications 75 pp. 231-240.Retrieved 29 April 2010. 39. ^"Gravel Working in the River Tay System: A Code of Good Practice". (2007) SNH. Report No. 1736. Battleby. {{ISBN|978-1-85397-573-8}}
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