![]() The Ravenna Cosmography, which was compiled by an anonymous cleric in Ravenna around AD 700, mentions various Scottish island names. However, the derivations of many of these names are obscure "suggesting that they were coined very early on, some perhaps by the earliest settlers after the Ice Age." Even when names used both in the historic past and the present have some apparent meaning this may indicate a phonetic resemblance to an older name, but one that may be "so old and so linguistically and lexically opaque that we do not have any plausible referents for them." įast-flowing sea water under the 18th-century Clachan Bridge that links Seil to mainland Scotland There is some linguistic continuity between the earliest and modern names for many of the larger islands surrounding Scotland. Kilbrandon Church has fine examples of stained glass windows and an association with St Brendan. The "dangerous seas" of the Firth of Lorn have claimed many lives and there are several shipwrecks in the vicinity of Seil. Today, the economy is largely dependent on agriculture and tourism. The excavations from the island's quarries were exported all over the world during the course of the next two centuries. It became part of the estates of the Breadalbane family and in the early 18th century they began to exploit the rich potential of the Neoproterozoic slate beds. Part of the kingdom of Dalriada in the 7th century, by the sixteenth century Seil seems to have been primarily agricultural in nature. ![]() The origins of the island's name are unclear and probably pre-Gaelic. Seil has been linked to the mainland by bridge since the late 18th century. ![]() Seil ( / ˈ s iː l/ Scottish Gaelic: Saoil, Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: ) is one of the Slate Islands, located on the east side of the Firth of Lorn, 7 miles (11 kilometres) southwest of Oban, in Scotland. Wikipedia's multilingual support templates may also be used. This article should specify the language of its non-English content, using for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code.
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