Coylet

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
Scottish Parliament
List of places
UK
Scotland
56°03′16″N 4°59′01″W / 56.054408°N 4.9836236°W / 56.054408; -4.9836236

Coylet is a hamlet centred around the Coylet Inn beside Loch Eck, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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 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".

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. Starring Emma Thompson and Adrian Dunbar, directed by Paul Murton.

References

  1. ↑ "Benmore Forest and Loch Eck - D-block GB-212000-687000". BBC Domesday Reloaded. British Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. 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.