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Placename	Type	County/City	Description	Location	Image
Holy Island	Island	Bute	An island in the Firth of Clyde, to the east of Arran, between 1845 and 1975 in the civil parish of Kilbride, Bute-shire. Since 1991 the site of a Buddhist community. Sometimes known as Holy Isle, and formerly known as Eilean Molaise, or its corruption, Lamlash. From 1830 the name Holy island gained currency to differentiate it from the village of Lamlash on the island of Arran. Not to be confused with the Holy Isles; another name for the Garvellachs, to the north of Jura, Argyllshire.	55*32N 05*15W

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Locations of settlements (including burghs) are National Grid References or (for offshore islands) degrees and minutes of longitude and latitude. Locations given are approximate. Those prefixed by a question mark are places which have not been traced accurately but in many cases a rough location has been attempted. In some cases these have been taken from published works. In others, attempts have been made to find the occurrence of the name in Ordnance Survey maps. A grid reference is in the form of the letter code which relates to a 100Km square section of the National Grid, and four digits, which relate to the nearest lines of easting and northing, e.g. NM4087 relates to section NM and the lines 40 east and 87 north.