Colonsay is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, located north of Islay as well as southern of Mull. The ancestral house of Clan Macfie and the Colonsay branch of Clan MacNeil, it remains in the council area of Argyll as well as Bute and has an area of 4,074 hectares (15.7 sq mi). Aligned on a south-west to north-east axis, it measures 8 miles (13 kilometres) in length and reaches 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) at its best point. The island's populace was 124 as recorded by the 2011 census an increase of nearly 15% given that 2001 when there were 108 typical residents.