 Eyebroughy, with rocks in foreground | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
  Eyebroughy The island shown within East Lothian | |
| Coordinates | 56°04′00″N2°49′00″W / 56.066667°N 2.816667°W /56.066667; -2.816667 |
| Physical geography | |
| Island group | Islands of the Forth |
| Administration | |
| Council area | East Lothian |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 0 |
 | |
Eyebroughy (or archaicallyIbris; NT493859) is a small, rockyislet in theFirth of Forth, 200 m offEast Lothian,Scotland.
Eyebroughy sits 200 metres (220 yd) off the East Lothian coast, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 miles) to the north northeast of the village ofGullane and 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) west ofNorth Berwick.[1] It is in the parish ofDirleton and sits opposite the western part of Dirleton's East Links, at low tide it may be possible to walk to the island. It formed part of the estate ofArcherfield.[2]
It is anRSPB reserve, and the birds breeding on the island includecommon eider,great cormorant andherring gull, wintering birds includeruddy turnstone andpurple sandpiper.[3] The island is formed from anintrusion oftrachytes from the lowerCarboniferous.[1] Eyebroughy is part of the Firth of Forth Islands Species Protection Area.[4] It has been described as small and very narrow.[5]
Two shipwrecks are noted for Eybroughy. The first was the 94-ton woodenschoonerJane which was stranded on Eyebroughy, with a cargo ofalum and a single passenger on its way fromGoole toLeith, on 18 December 1892.[6] The second is that of the 310-tonlighterBertha, which loaded with salvage equipment. This vessel was lost on 21 December 1900 as it driven away from a stranded steamer and ran into Eyebroughy.[7]
The Scottish historical novelistNigel Tranter, who lived in nearbyLuffness, mentioned Eyebroughy in at least two of his novels,Drug on the Market[8] andFlowers of Chivalry.[9]
{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Media related toEyebroughy at Wikimedia Commons