The Torran Rocks are a large shoal of reefs, islets, and skerries, approximately 15 square miles (39 square kilometres) in extent, two miles (three kilometres) to the southwest, between the Ross of Mull peninsula and Dubh Artach. [citation needed]. [31] West Coast Motors also provide guided tours around Mull, Iona, and Staffa, including boat transfers from Oban. In 1354, though in exile and without control of his ancestral lands, John, the MacDougall heir, quitclaimed any rights he had over Mull to the Lord of the Isles.
After Somerled's death in 1164, nominal Norwegian authority was established, but practical control of the realm was divided between Somerled's sons and the heirs of Somerled's brother-in-law, the Crovan Dynasty.
In 1266, his more peaceable successor ceded his nominal authority over the Suðreyjar to Alexander III by the Treaty of Perth in return for a very large sum of money.
Following Jacobite insurrections, the Heritable Jurisdictions Act abolished comital authority in Mull and Campbell control of the Argyll sheriffdom; the Campbells could now only assert influence as landlords. When the Jacobite poet converted from the Calvinist Church of Scotland to the Roman Catholic Church, the Mull Satirist accused him of doing so, not out of serious conviction, but to curry favour with the exiled House of Stuart. 20, Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) Local Studies, 2006: Dennis, R.W.G., Watling, R. 1983. Loganair operated a scheduled service to Glasgow in the 1960s from Glenforsa airfield, a 780-metre-long (2,560 ft) grass airstrip constructed by the Royal Engineers in 1965 near Salen.
The Isle of Mull (Scottish Gaelic An t-Eilean Muileach, pronounced [ən 'tjelan ˈmuləx]) or just Mull (English and Scots: ; Scottish Gaelic: Muile, ()) is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides (after Skye) and lies off the west coast of Scotland in the council area of Argyll and Bute..
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Numerous islands lie off the west coast of Mull, including Erraid, Inch Kenneth, Iona, Gometra, and Ulva.
In February 2015 additional cables were laid underground between Tobermory and Torosay to complete the link.
Now that John MacDonald was exiled, James IV restored the authority of the MacLeans over Mull. [37], Mull Theatre is a professional theatre company based in a 2008 theatre production centre on the outskirts of Tobermory. Abingdon: Routledge, Holley, M.W., Ralston, I.B.M. Bunessan F.C. The Isle of Mull is a popular destination for naturalists and photographers for seeing some of Britain's more elusive species.
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Find what to do today, this weekend, or in September. When de Bruys defeated John, he declared the MacDougall lands forfeit and gave them to the MacDonalds and MacRory, with the latter acquiring Lorn (and hence, Mull). Campbell's own position was somewhat undermined when he instigated Argyll's Rising against the reign of James VII. There is one secondary school on the island (Tobermory High School, which includes a Gaelic medium education unit) and six primary schools.