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Oa, a headland and a quoad sacra parish in Kildalton parish, Islay island, Argyllshire. The headland, flanking the S side of Laggan Bay, 3½ miles NW of Port Ellen and 7½ S of Bowmore, overlooks the E side of the entrance of Loch Indal; has a beetling, lofty, imposing character; is crowned with the ruins of Dunaidh Castle; was originally called Keannoath; is now called the Mull of Oa; and often gives its name of Oa to much or all of the entire south-eastern peninsula of Islay. The quoad sacra parish, which comprises the southern part of that peninsula, and which has for its post-town either Port Ellen or Bowmore under Greenock, was constituted first by the ecclesiastical authorities, next in 1849 by the court of teinds. It is in the presbytery of Islay and Jura and the synod of Argyll; its minister's stipend is £120, with a manse and a glebe worth £12 and £6 a year. The church was built at the expense of government in the first half of the present century. Pop. (1871) 367, (1881) 247, of whom 240 were Gaelic-speaking.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a headland and a quoad sacra parish" (ADL Feature Type: "capes") |
| Administrative units: | Argyll ScoCnty |
| Place names: | KEANNOATH | OA |
| Place: | Oa |
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