Kilmore, Skye

Kilmore
Scottish Gaelic: *A' Chille Mhór*
Kilmore Scottish Gaelic: A' Chille Mhór;
	Rocky foreshore east of Kimore on the Sleat Peninsula
	Kilmore Location within the Isle of Skye
OS grid reference	NG654067
Council area	Highland;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	IV44
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
	List of places UK Scotland 57°05′30″N 5°52′23″W / 57.0917°N 5.873°W

Kilmore (Gaelic: A' Chille Mhór^[1]) is a small hamlet, on the east coast of the Sleat peninsula of the Isle of Skye is in the Scottish council area of Highland. It lies on the A851 road and is 1⁄4 mile (400 metres) southwest of Ferindonald.

Sleat Parish Church (1876) is located here, with the ruins of the Old Parish Church behind (1631–1876). A former Minister Rev. John Forbes (1818–63) was a noted Gaelic scholar who wrote a Gaelic grammar and investigated the deaths of three girls from the parish who were taken to the cotton mills of Manchester as forced-labour and published his findings in a book Weeping in the Isles (1853).^[2]

Bun-sgoil Shlèite and Sleat Medical Centre are located at the southern end of Kilmore, and the Gaelic college Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is 1⁄2 mile (800 metres) southwest.

References

^ Iain Mac an Tàilleir (2003). "Placenames collected by Iain Mac an Tailleir". Scottish Parliament. Archived from the original on 24 October 2004. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
^ Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland: a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical.

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[Mac_an_Tàilleir-1] Iain Mac an Tàilleir (2003). "Placenames collected by Iain Mac an Tailleir". Scottish Parliament. Archived from the original on 24 October 2004. Retrieved 16 January 2011.

[Rev._John_Forbes-2] Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland: a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical.

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