Coylet

Coylet

Coylet Inn
Scotland
Coylet
Coylet shown within Argyll and Bute
OS grid reference NS 14304 88632
Council area
  • Argyll and Bute
Lieutenancy area
  • Argyll and Bute
Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town DUNOON, ARGYLL
Postcode district PA23
Dialling code 01369
EU Parliament Scotland
UK Parliament
  • Argyll and Bute
Scottish Parliament
  • Argyll and Bute
Aerial view of Coylet: caravan park

Coylet is a hamlet on Loch Eck, Cowal peninsula, Argyll and Bute, in West Scotland.[1]

The hamlet is within the Argyll Forest Park, which is itself within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. It developed around a coaching inn on the A815 road that leads to Dunoon, the main town on the peninsula.

The name may be derived from Gaelic caol ait, "narrow place".[2]

Coylet Coaching Inn

The Coylet Inn is a 17th-century coaching inn overlooking Loch Eck, and originally known as the Loch Eck Inn.[3][4] The building is believed to be haunted, by the ghost of a drowned boy.[5][6] It was badly damaged by fire on 7 July 2015.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Benmore Forest and Loch Eck - D-block GB-212000-687000". BBC Domesday Reloaded. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  2. ↑ James Brown Johnston (1903). "Coylet Inn (L. Eck)". Place-names of Scotland (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: David Douglas. p. 85. OCLC 2204716.
  3. ↑ "Argyll, Bute and The Islands". Around About Britain: Hotels, B & Bs, Self Catering Holiday Cottages and Campsites in the UK.
  4. ↑ "Coylet Inn". Best Pubs and Inns of Britain 2002. Windsor, Berkshire: AA. 2001. p. 533. ISBN 9781562516871.
  5. ↑ Trevor Mendham. "The Coylet Inn". Streenge. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  6. ↑ Dane Love (2009) [1995]. Scottish Ghosts. Stroud: Amberley. ISBN 9781848687226.
  7. ↑ "Blaze at Coylet Inn". Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard. 7 July 2015.

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