Coylet

For the ship, see SS Coylet.

Coylet Scottish Gaelic: Cuingleathad
Coylet Inn
Coylet Location within Argyll and Bute
OS grid reference	NS 14304 88632
Council area	Argyll and Bute
Lieutenancy area	Argyll and Bute
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DUNOON, ARGYLL
Postcode district	PA23
Dialling code	01369
UK Parliament	Argyll and Bute
Scottish Parliament	Argyll and Bute
List of places UK Scotland 56°03′16″N4°59′01″W / 56.054408°N 4.9836236°W / 56.054408; -4.9836236

Coylet is a hamlet on Loch Eck, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland. ^[1]

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 established in the 1650s ^[2] located 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". ^[3]

Popular culture

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. ^{[4] [5]} Starring Emma Thompson and Adrian Dunbar, directed by Paul Murton.

Gallery

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  View from Coylet Inn
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  Looking ashore from Loch Eck
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  Aerial view of Coylet

References

1. "Benmore Forest and Loch Eck - D-block GB-212000-687000". BBC Domesday Reloaded . British Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 4 February 2017.
2. Erskine, Rosalind (15 March 2023). "8 of the oldest pubs in Scotland - including The White Hart and Clachan Inn | Scotsman Food and Drink". foodanddrink.scotsman.com. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
3. James Brown Johnston (1903). "Place-names of Scotland. Coylet Inn (L. Eck)". Nature. 70 (1813) (2nd ed.): 85. Bibcode:1904Natur..70..292.. doi: 10.1038/070292a0 . OCLC   2204716.
4. "A ghostly legend materialises" - The Herald , 15 August 1994
5. "The Blue Boy" – via www.imdb.com.

External links

• Map sources for Coylet

• Scotland portal