Port Ellen (Scottish Gaelic: Port Ìlein) is a humble community on the island of Islay, in Argyll, Scotland. The town is named after the spouse of its author, Frederick Campbell of Islay. Its past name, Leòdamas, is gotten from Old Norse signifying “Leòd’s Harbor”.
Port Ellen
Scottish Gaelic: Port Ìlein
Port Ellen, Islay.jpg
Port Ellen
Port Ellen is situated in Argyll and Bute
Port Ellen
Port Ellen
Area inside Argyll and Bute
Operating system lattice reference
NR365455
Gathering zone
Argyll and Bute
Lieutenancy zone
Argyll and Bute
Nation
Scotland
Sovereign state
Joined Kingdom
Post town
ISLE OF ISLAY
Postcode area
PA42
Dialing code
01496
Police
Scotland
Fire
Scottish
Rescue vehicle
Scottish
UK Parliament
Argyll and Bute
Scottish Parliament
Argyll and Bute
Rundown of spots
UK
Scotland
55.63°N 6.18°W
Port Ellen is worked around Leodamais Bay, Islay’s principle profound water harbor. It is the biggest town on Islay, just marginally bigger than Bowmore and gives the fundamental ship association among Islay and the territory, at Kennacraig. The Port Ellen Distillery was first settled during the 1820s and stopped creation of Scotch whisky in 1983. The huge malting keeps on creating for most of the refineries on Islay.[1][2]
Substance
HistoryEdit
The zone around Port Ellen has an assortment of archeological locales covering the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age time frames. There are standing stones at Kilbride, a fortification at Borraichill Mor, a few chambered cairns, and a house of prayer at Cill Tobar Lasrach.[1] Nearby falsehood the destroyed remaining parts of the fourteenth century Dunyvaig Castle, when a stronghold of the MacDonald Lords of the Isles.