Portree Bay, Skye

Category

Library Item

Item no

24560

Title

Portree Bay, Skye

Description

The sign on the house to the left of the picture reads, 'Furnished apartments'.

Artist / maker

Valentine, James

Date

1865

Size

11.5 x 20.1 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Portree is only about 200 years old and was created as a fishing village at the beginning of the 19th century by the then Lord MacDonald. The name Portree or Port Righ, King's Port in Gaelic, is popularly thought to derive from a visit by King James V (of Scotland) in 1540 but the area around the harbour was called Portree or Portray long before the arrival of the king. Its name really comes from the Gaelic for Port on the Slope.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

Landscape > Land > Hills

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