Bucinch

Infobox Scottish island


latitude=56.09
longitude=-4.59
GridReference=NS387918
celtic name= Buc-Innis
norse name=
meaning of name= Buck, or Male Goat Island
area= ha
area rank=
highest elevation= 24 m
Population=0
population rank=
main settlement=
island group= Loch Lomond
local authority=Stirling
references= [2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland] [ [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ Ordnance Survey] ]

Bucinch or Buc-Innis (Scottish Gaelic: "Buck Island" or "Male Goat Island") is a small island in Loch Lomond, in west central Scotland.

The heavily wooded island lies due north of Inchcruincite book| author=Worsley, Harry| title=Loch Lomond: The Loch, the Lairds and the Legends| isbn=978-1-898169-34-5| publisher=Lindsay Publications| location=Glasgow| date=1988] and rises steeply from a rocky coastlinecite web| url=http://www.loch-lomond.net/islands/bucinch.html| title=Buccinch| publisher=Loch Lomond net| accessdate=2008-09-25] to 24m (78 feet).cite web| url=http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst15078.html| title=Overview of Buccinch| publisher=Gazetteer for Scotland| accessdate=2008-09-25]

Along with smaller neighbour, Ceardach, Bucinch was donated to the National Trust for Scotland by Col Charles L Spencer of Warmanbie, Dumfries, in 1943. [cite web| url=http://www.aboutbritain.com/BucinchAndCeardach.htm| title=Bucinch & Ceardach| publisher=About Britain.com| accessdate=2008-09-25] . Although uninhabited for centuries, there are remains of a stone jetty.

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External links

* http://www.lochlomond-islands.com/pag50.html