Sleat is a peninsula and civil parish on the island of Skye in the Highland council area of Scotland, known as "the garden of Skye". It is the home of...
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Clan Macdonald of Sleat, sometimes known as Clan Donald North and in Gaelic Clann Ùisdein [kʰl̪ˠan̪ˠ ˈuːʃtʲɛɲ], is a Scottish clan and a branch of Clan...
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Gaasterlân-Sleat is a former municipality in the northern Netherlands. Its official name is in West Frisian, the Dutch name being Gaasterland-Sloten (pronounced...
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Baron Macdonald (redirect from Lord Sleat)
Macdonald, 9th Baronet, of Sleat. The Macdonald family of Sleat descends from Uisdean Macdonald (died 1498), also known as Hugh of Sleat, or Hugh Macdonald,...
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Aird of Sleat (Scottish Gaelic: Àird Shlèite) is a village on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It is at the southern end of the Sleat peninsula, 4 miles (6...
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The Point of Sleat Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Skye in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. It was built in 1934 at the Point of Sleat at the southern end of...
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North Uist (section Hugh of Sleat and his sons)
charter which acknowledged him as rightful heir of Hugh of Sleat, and confirmed him as laird of Sleat and North Uist. In an attempt to solidify peaceful relations...
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(established 2015) Sleat & Strath (established 1972) Fort William Reserves Kyleakin Mallaig Portree Portree Juniors North West Skye Sleat & Strath The West...
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Wester Ross Supergroup (section Sleat Group)
known to be a completely separate and older sequence. The Sleat Group, which outcrops on the Sleat peninsula on Skye, underlies the Torridon Group conformably...
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Chief, 1st Baronet of Sleat, his nephew succeeded as the chief and became the first Baronet of Sleat. Clan MacDonald of Sleat continues to hold title...
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Neil Sleat is a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4. After joining the BBC in 1989 as a trainee engineer, working as a studio manager and...
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Sir Donald Gorme Og Macdonald, 1st Baronet (redirect from Sir Donald Gorme Macdonald, 8th Laird of Sleat)
Laird of Sleat, and 1st Baronet (died 1643) was a Scottish laird. He had succeeded his uncle, Donald Gorme Mor Macdonald, 7th Laird of Sleat, who died...
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The Sleat History, also known as the History of the MacDonalds, is a seventeenth-century historical source documenting the history of Clan Donald. The...
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Hugh of Sleat (c. 1436 – 1498), pronounced "Slate", who is known as Ùisdean (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈuːʃtʲan]) in Gaelic, was a son of Alexander...
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The Sleat Group, which outcrops on the Sleat peninsula on Skye, underlies the Torridon Group conformably, but the relationship with the Stoer Group is...
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Balk, Netherlands (redirect from Balk, Gaasterlân-Sleat)
Balk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɑl(ə)k]) is a town in the northern Netherlands. It is a village of the municipality De Fryske Marren, province Friesland...
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The Sound of Sleat is a narrow sea channel off the western coast of Scotland. It divides the Sleat peninsula on the south-east side of the Isle of Skye...
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The Macdonald baronetcy, later Bosville Macdonald Baronetcy, of Sleat (also Slate) in the Isle of Skye, County of Inverness, was created in the Baronetage...
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Bun-sgoil Shlèite (redirect from Sleat Primary school)
8716°W / 57.0898; -5.8716 Bun-sgoil Shlèite is a primary school on the Sleat peninsula of the island of Skye in Scotland. It is Scotland's only Gaelic...
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crofting communities, the island of Soay lies offshore. The bedrock of Sleat in the south is Torridonian sandstone, which produces poor soils and boggy...
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near the southern end of the Sleat peninsula on the Isle of Skye, in the Highland council area of Scotland. Like most of Sleat, but unlike most of Skye,...
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De Kaai (English: The Key) is a smock mill in Sleat, Friesland, Netherlands which was built in 1755 and is in working order. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument...
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During the 17th century it was the seat of the chiefs of Clan MacDonald of Sleat. It is a scheduled monument. It is believed that, in prehistoric times,...
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recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms; these are: Clan Macdonald of Sleat, Clan Macdonald of Clanranald, Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, Clan MacDonald...
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prevented them from taking possession of Sleat and North Uist. John's daughter and heiress married Domhnall 'gorme' of Sleat, the son and successor of Domhnall...
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may refer to: Sloten, Friesland, a city in the municipality of Gaasterlân-Sleat, Netherlands Sloten, Amsterdam, a village in the municipality of Amsterdam...
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of Skye, in the north-west of Scotland. It is located in the Parish of Sleat, in the Highland council area, and in the former county of Inverness-shire...
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Sloten, Friesland (redirect from Sloten, Gaasterlân-Sleat)
Sloten (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsloːtə(n)]; West Frisian: Sleat) is a historical fortified city within the municipality of De Fryske Marren, in the Dutch...
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Sir James Mor Macdonald, 9th Laird of Sleat and 2nd Baronet (c.1605 – 8 December 1678) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier. Born the eldest son of Sir...
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coast of the Highlands of Scotland. It faces Skye from across the Sound of Sleat. The local railway station is the terminus of the West Highland Line (Fort...
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