Bucinch or Buc-Innis (

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: "Buck Island" or "Male Goat Island") is a small island in

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, in west central

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. The heavily wooded island lies due north of

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and rises steeply from a rocky coastline to in a central summit. Along with smaller neighbour, Ceardach, Bucinch was donated to the

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by Col Charles L Spencer of Warmanbie, Dumfries, in 1943. Although uninhabited for centuries, there are remains of a stone jetty.

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