American Monument
A cliff-top tower at the Mull of Oa, raised in 1920 for the American servicemen…
Attractions on Islay.
Castles, ruins, historic houses and museums across Scotland, each marked for whether it earns the entry fee. Heart anything and it keeps for your trip.
Bruichladdich Distillery, Isle of Islay
Ardbeg Distillery
The peated malt distillery on its own small bay east of Port Ellen, making…
Bowmore
Islay's main town, a planned village of 1768 whose Main Street climbs from the…
Bowmore Distillery
The distillery on the shore of Loch Indaal in the middle of Bowmore, with…
Bruichladdich Distillery
A Victorian distillery on Loch Indaal making Bruichladdich, Port Charlotte…
Caol Ila Distillery
The distillery on the Sound of Islay near Port Askaig, the Islay Home of…
Carraig Fhada Lighthouse
Scotland's only square lighthouse, built in 1832 at Kilnaughton Bay by the…
Dunyvaig Castle
The ruined sea fortress of the Lords of the Isles on a rocky point in Lagavulin…
Kilchoman Distillery
Islay's family-run farm distillery at Rockside Farm, making whisky from barley…
Kildalton Cross
A ring-headed high cross of the 700s, still standing where it was raised, in a…
Kilnave Chapel and Cross
A roofless medieval chapel and an 8th-century cross on the shore of Loch…
Lagavulin Distillery
The distillery of 1816 on Lagavulin Bay, beside the ruins of Dunyvaig Castle…
Laggan Bay
The Big Strand: seven miles of sand on Laggan Bay, Islay's longest beach…
Laphroaig Distillery
The Kildalton distillery of 1815 on a rocky bay east of Port Ellen, with its…
Loch Gruinart
The RSPB reserve at the head of Loch Gruinart, where tens of thousands of…
Lossit Bay
A remote crescent of golden sand backed by dunes on the wild west coast of the…
Machir Bay
A long Atlantic beach of pale sand below the dunes at Kilchoman on Islay…
Mull of Oa
The cliff-bound south-west tip of Islay, an RSPB reserve of sea cliffs and moor…
Port Askaig
Islay's northern ferry port, a tiny white village on the Sound of Islay, half a…
Portnahaven
A fishing village of whitewashed cottages round a sheltered inlet at the tip of…
Rhinns of Islay Lighthouse
Islay's oldest lighthouse, a Robert Stevenson tower of 1825 on the island of…
Saligo Bay
A west-coast bay of pale sand and layered rock, famous for its light, looking…
Soldier's Rock
A tall sea stack below the cliffs of the Oa, reached by a walk from Kintra past…
The Singing Sands
A small sheltered beach near Port Ellen, by Carraig Fhada lighthouse, whose…
A roofless medieval chapel and an 8th-century cross on the shore of Loch Gruinart, scene of a clan battle in 1598.From our write-up of Kilnave Chapel and Cross
