The Isle of Bute, referred to as Bute, is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, UK. It is divided into highland and also lowland locations by the Highland Boundary Fault. Formerly a constituent island of the bigger County of Bute, it is currently part of the council location of Argyll as well as Bute. Bute's resident population was 6,498 in 2011, a decrease of just over 10% from the number of 7,228 recorded in 2001 versus a background of Scottish island populations all at once growing by 4% to 103,702 for the exact same period. The name "Bute" is of unclear beginning. Watson as well as Mac an Tàilleir support a derivation from Old Irish bót ("fire"), possibly of signal fires. This recommendation to beacon fires may date from the Viking duration, when the island was probably understood to the Norse as Bót. Various other feasible derivations consist of Brythonic budh ("corn"), "success", St Brendan, or both, his reclusive cell. There is no likely derivation from Ptolemy's Ebudae. The island was also recognized throughout the Viking age as Rothesay, possibly referring to the personal name Roth or Roderick and also the Old Norse suffix ey ("island"). This name was eventually taken by the main town on the island, whose Gaelic name is Baile Bhòid ("community of Bute").