This is a list of islands called Eilean Fraoch or Fraoch Eilean, which provides an index for islands in Scotland with this and similar names. Literally meaning " heather island" in

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, it is a common Scottish island name. It may also represent the forename " Fraoch" from Gaelic mythology. "Eilean Fraoch" is also a nickname for the

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in the Outer Hebrides and "Fraoch Eilean" was the war-cry of Clan MacNaughton. The

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of the current chief of

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includes the motto "Fraoch Eilean" which is set "on a compartment of rocks and heather proper issuant from the waves". Fraoch Eilean has the same meaning in English as

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or Lingay, island names of Norse derivation, also commonly found in Scotland.

Eilean Fraoch

* Eilean Fraoch on Loch Avich * Eilean Fraoich, Burnt Islands * Eilean Fraoch, in Fionn Loch in

Wester Ross Wester Ross () is an area of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland in the council area of Highland. The area is loosely defined, and has never been used as a formal administrative region in its own right, but is generally regarded as lying to th ...

Fraoch Eilean

* Fraoch Eilean, Loch Awe * Fraoch Eilean, Loch Lomond near

Luss Luss (, 'herb') is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, on the west bank of Loch Lomond. The village is within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. History Historically in the County of Dunbarton, its original name is ''Clacha ...

* Am Fraoch Eilean, or Fraoch Eilean off Jura, the location of Claig Castle * The name of two islets off

Luing Luing ( ; ) is one of the Slate Islands, Scotland, Slate Islands, Firth of Lorn, in the west of Argyll in Scotland, about south of Oban. The island has an area of and is bounded by several small skerries and islets. It has a population of aroun ...

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* Fraoch-eilean, an inhabited island north of Grimsay at . * Am Fraoch-eilean, an uninhabited rocky islet at the mouth of Loch nan Ceall () near Arisaig.

Other uses

* "Fraoch Eilean" is the name of a

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played on the

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."The Glencoe Collection of Bagpipe Music: Book 1"
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References

{{Islands of Scotland Scottish Island set index articles