Ardvasar ( gd, Àird a’ Bhàsair) is a village near the southern end of the

Sleat Sleat is a peninsula and civil parish on the island of Skye in the Highland council area of Scotland, known as "the garden of Skye". It is the home of the clan ''MacDonald of Sleat''. The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic , which in turn comes ...

peninsula, on the

Isle of Skye The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (; gd, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or ; sco, Isle o Skye), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous hub dominated b ...

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to th ...

. It is just to the south of the village of Armadale, where a ferry crosses to

Mallaig Mallaig (; gd, Malaig derived from Old Norse , meaning sand dune bay) is a port in Lochaber, on the west coast of the Highlands of Scotland. The local railway station, Mallaig, is the terminus of the West Highland railway line (Fort Will ...

. Nearby attractions include

Armadale Castle Armadale Castle is a ruined country house in Armadale, Skye, former home of the MacDonalds. A mansion house was first built here around 1790, facing south-east over the Sound of Sleat. In 1815 a square Tudor-Gothic mock-castle, intended for show ...

and the Museum of the Isles.

Gaelic in Ardvasar

The Gaelic name is often translated as the ''Point of the Executioner'', but the element translated as ''executioner'' (Bàsar) is obscure. In the first detailed census of the area (1891), 99.0% of residents were recorded as able to speak Gaelic, with 20.2% recorded as mono-lingual Gaelic speakers. In the last census (2011), 26.7% of residents were reported as able to speak Gaelic. The local school, Bun-sgoil Shlèite/Sleat Primary School, is a designated Gaelic school with an English unit, and

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig () (Great Barn of Ostaig) is a public higher education college situated in the Sleat peninsula in the south of the Isle of Skye The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (; gd, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or ; sco, Isle o Skye ...

, Scotland's Gaelic-language tertiary education institution, is away in Kilbeg.

References

External links

Ardvasar on Gazetteer for Scotland

Populated places in the Isle of Skye {{Highland-geo-stub