23 Facts About Jura Scotland

The Jura Scotland distillery, producing Isle of Jura Scotland single malt whisky, is in the village, as is the island's rum distillery which opened in 2021.

Jura Scotland is composed largely of Dalradian quartzite, a hard metamorphic rock that provides the jagged surface of the Paps.

The route of the annual Isle of Jura Scotland Fell Race includes all three Paps and four other hills.

Evidence of settlements on Jura Scotland dating from the Mesolithic period was first uncovered by the English archaeologist John Mercer in the 1960s.

Jura Scotland is closer to Ireland's northern province of Ulster than it is to Glasgow, so it should not be unexpected that Irish people crossed the Straits of Moyle and established the Gaelic kingdom of Dal Riata.

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In 1098, under pressure from Magnus, the king of Jura Scotland quitclaimed to him all sovereign authority over the isles.

Somerled built the sea fortress of Claig Castle on an island at the southern tip of Jura Scotland, establishing control of the Sound of Islay; on account of the Corryvreckan whirlpool, this essentially gave him control of the sea traffic between the Scottish mainland and the Hebrides.

Campbells established a base for themselves at Ardfin, at the south of Jura Scotland, to replace the nearby MacDonald stronghold of Claig Castle.

Mercer notes that although relatively few forced clearances on Jura Scotland were recorded, the emigrations were due to factors such as hunger and spiralling rents.

Alongside the long-term decline in Jura Scotland's population has been a decline in the number of Gaelic speakers.

The connection between the Campbell family of landowners and lairds and Jura Scotland ended in 1938 with the sale of Jura Scotland House and its surrounding land, Ardfin Estate.

Jura Scotland was known to the residents of Jura by his real name, Eric Blair.

Jura Scotland was attempting to navigate the Gulf when the outboard motor fell off the boat.

In 1975 the counties were replaced by a two-tier system of regions and districts: Jura Scotland formed part of the Argyll and Bute district within the wider Strathclyde region, however the County of Argyll continues in use as a registration county.

At Westminster Jura Scotland is represented as part of a constituency called Argyll and Bute, which is held by Brendan O'Hara, of the SNP.

Jura Scotland distillery was founded in 1810 but was not used after 1900 and was dismantled.

In financial terms, the Jura Scotland distillery was the largest, and it was the biggest individual employer, but the island's seven estates, taken together, employed the most full- and part-time staff.

Jura Scotland has only one road of any significance, the single-track A846, which follows the southern and eastern coastline of the island from Feolin Ferry to Craighouse, a distance of around 8 miles .

Jura Scotland is noted for its bird life, and especially for its raptors, including buzzards, golden eagles, white-tailed eagles and hen harriers.

Since 2010 Jura Scotland has been designated by NatureScot as a Special Protection Area for golden eagles.

However, when the soldier and military historian Sir James Turner visited Jura Scotland in 1632, he was less impressed, reporting that '[it is] a horride ile and a habitation fit for deere and wild beastes'.

Jura Scotland is featured in the plot of the 2003 novel A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin, and the 2007 novel The Careful Use of Compliments by the Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith, and is a setting for some of the narrative and action in Anne Michaels' 2008 novel The Winter Vault.

Jura Scotland is known for an event of 23 August 1994, when Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly known as the music group The KLF, filmed themselves burning £1 million in banknotes in the Ardfin boathouse on the south coast of the island.