Area Guide For Isle of Colonsay

Colonsay (Scottish Gaelic: Colbhasa) is an island in the Inward Hebrides of Scotland, found north of Islay and south of Ponder. The inborn home of Faction Macfie and the Colonsay extension of Family MacNeil, it is in the chamber range of Argyll and Bute and has a territory of 4,074 hectares (15.7 sq mi). Adjusted on a south-west to north-east pivot, it quantifies 8 miles (13 km) long and achieves 3 miles (4.8 km) at its most extensive point. In 1995 confirmation of huge scale Mesolithic nut shelling, exactly 9000 years prior, was found in a midden pit at Staosnaig on the island's shielded east drift, in a substantial, shallow pit brimming with the remaining parts of countless smoldered hazelnut shells. Hazelnuts have been found on other Mesolithic locales, yet once in a while in such amounts or amassed in one pit. Caledonian MacBrayne ships sail to Oban and, in the middle of April and October, to Kennacraig by means of Port Askaig on Islay. In 2006 the previous grass airstrip was overhauled and furnished with a hard surface in preparation for the presentation of a booked air administration. Hebridean Air Administrations works from Oban Air terminal and Islay Air terminal to Colonsay Air terminal.