About The Area

Tiree and Coll are the two outermost islands of the Inner Hebrides. Tiree is situated in the Atlantic about 12 miles west of the island of Mull. The dimensions of the island are about 10 miles by 6 miles, with about 800 people living here and Scarinish being the local capital. Gaelic is still a commonly used language.

Tiree History stretches back for over 9000 years into the bronze age when the first settlers arrived on the islands. Witnesses to this period can still be found on many places on the islands: Stone rings, Standing Stones and the Ringing Stones on Tiree's north shore. The Iron Age brought the first fortified buildings to the isles, Dun Mor near Vaul in north-west Tiree is the best preserved and the remains can still be visited.

From about 500 AD the Celts inhabited the land and brought Christianity to this part of the world. Later centuries saw the Vikings playing an influential role - many of the town names are reminder to that period.

The attractions in today's calendar are the annual Tiree Agricultural Show with display of local livestock and handiwork, Britain's last dipping lugsail regatta and regular performances of the Tiree Pipe Band.

Tiree as many isles of the Inner and Outer Hebrides has significant bird nesting places. Eider ducklings, fulmars, large numbers of shags, guillemots and razorbills can be observed in summer, during the winter period, the island is an important haven for large flocks of barnacle, white-fronted geese, whooper swans from Iceland and the odd rarities on their flight from continental Europe and North America in spring and autumn.

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