Isle Of Bute
The Isle of Bute, referred to as Bute, is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is divided into highland and also lowland areas by the Highland Boundary Fault. Formerly a constituent island of the bigger Area of Bute, it is now part of the council location of Argyll and also Bute. Bute's resident population was 6,498 in 2011, a decline of just over 10% from the number of 7,228 recorded in 2001 against a background of Scottish island populations all at once expanding by 4% to 103,702 for the exact same period. The name "Bute" is of unsure origin. Watson as well as Mac an Tàilleir support a derivation from Old Irish bót ("fire"), possibly in reference to signal fires. This referral to beacon fires may date from the Viking duration, when the island was possibly known to the Norse as Bót. Various other feasible derivations include Brythonic budh ("corn"), "triumph", St Brendan, or both, his reclusive cell. There is no most likely derivation from Ptolemy's Ebudae. The island was likewise understood during the Viking age as Rothesay, potentially referring to the personal name Roth or Roderick and also the Old Norse suffix ey ("island"). This name was at some point taken by the primary community on the island, whose Gaelic name is Baile Bhòid ("community of Bute").