For the ship, see SS Coylet.

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]

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.

  • View from Coylet Inn
    View from Coylet Inn
  • Looking ashore from Loch Eck
    Looking ashore from Loch Eck
  • Aerial view of Coylet
    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.
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coylet
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