Holy Island (near Arran) Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
island in the Firth of Clyde, North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
About Holy Island (near Arran)
Originally calledInis Shroin(House of the Water Spirit), the Holy Island is so-named for its spiritual significance. In the late 6th century Saint Molaise lived here as a hermit: he went on to be the abbot of Leighlin Monastery nearLeighlinbridgein Ireland, dying in 639 AD. The place was thus calledEilean Molaise, which morphed into "Lamlash", which morphed into the name of the village on Arran by which you get here. Lamlash is sheltered by Holy Island and has the safest anchorage, so it was the arrival point and main settlement of Arran until the ferry port re-located in modern times to Brodick. The medieval monastery on Holy Island was already decrepit by the 1560s Reformation. The place was farmland with distant landlords; sheep greatly outnumbered people, especially after the 18th- and
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