Coylet

Coylet is a hamlet on Loch Eck, Cowal peninsula, Argyll and Bute, in West Scotland.[1]

For other uses, see Coylet (disambiguation).

Coylet
Coylet Inn
Scotland
Scotland
Coylet
Location within Argyll and Bute
OS grid referenceNS 14304 88632
Council area
  • Argyll and Bute
Lieutenancy area
  • Argyll and Bute
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDUNOON, ARGYLL
Postcode districtPA23
Dialling code01369
UK Parliament
  • Argyll and Bute
Scottish Parliament
  • Argyll and Bute

The hamlet is within the Argyll Forest Park, which is itself within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. It developed around the Coylet Inn, a coaching inn on the A815 road that leads to Dunoon, the main town on the peninsula.

The name may be derived from Gaelic caol ait, "narrow place".[2]

The 1994 film The Blue Boy is centred around the story of a four-year-old boy drowning in Loch Eck and haunting the Coylet Inn. It was filmed on location at the inn.[3][4] Starring Emma Thompson and Adrian Dunbar, directed by Paul Murton.

  • View from Coylet Inn Loch Eck Cowal
    View from Coylet Inn Loch Eck Cowal
  • Looking ashore from Loch Eck
    Looking ashore from Loch Eck
  • Aerial view of Coylet: caravan park
    Aerial view of Coylet: caravan park

References
  1. "Benmore Forest and Loch Eck - D-block GB-212000-687000". BBC Domesday Reloaded. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  2. James Brown Johnston (1903). "Place-names of Scotland. Coylet Inn (L. Eck)". Nature (2nd ed.). 70 (1813): 85. Bibcode:1904Natur..70..292.. doi:10.1038/070292a0. OCLC 2204716.
  3. "A ghostly legend materialises" - The Herald, 15 August 1994
  4. "The Blue Boy" – via www.imdb.com.
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