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Keose
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Population106 (2011)
Language Scottish Gaelic Gaidhlig
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town ISLE OF LEWIS
Postcode district HS2
Dialling code 01851
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58°06′17″N6°29′02″W / 58.10475°N 6.4839°W / 58.10475; -6.4839

Keose is a settlement in the Kinloch community council area of the Western Isles, Scotland, in the civil parish of Lochs. It lies on the north shore of Loch Erisort. [1] The old Parish Church, serving the parish of Lochs, was erected in 1830 on an island in Keose bay, but is now in ruins. The adjacent township of Keose Glebe was formerly the glebe of the manse of the parish church, but after 1929 it was split into crofts. Near Keose on the Swordale peninsula are ruins of what Is probably the first post-Reformation church in the parish of Lochs. [2] [3]

Keose, Gaelic spelling Ceòs, is derived from the word "Hollow" in Old Norse. [4]


At the 2011 census, the population of Keose and Keose Glebe was 106. [5]

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References

  1. Community Councils website, managed on behalf of the Scottish Government www.communitycouncils.scot/community-council-finder Retrieved April 2021
  2. Third Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol 13 Ross and Cromarty, ed.A.S. Mather, publ. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1987; pp. 399-415
  3. Canmore archeological inventory (Historic Environment Scotland website) canmore.org.uk/site/132153 - retrieved March 2024
  4. Website of Scottish Parliament – Language Resources (Placenames collected by Iain Mac an Tailleir, 2003); page 72 (in placenamesK-O.pdf) - archive2021.parliament.scot/gd/visitandlearn/40900.aspx – retrieved March 2024
  5. Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Scotland. Web site http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved April 2021. See "Standard Outputs", Table KS101SC, Area type: Output Area