Isle Of Bute
The Isle of Bute, known as Bute, is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, UK. It is split into highland and also lowland locations by the Highland Boundary Fault. Formerly a constituent island of the larger County of Bute, it is currently part of the council area of Argyll and also 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 against a history of Scottish island populations overall growing by 4% to 103,702 for the exact same period. The name "Bute" is of unsure beginning. Watson and also Mac an Tàilleir support a derivation from Old Irish bót ("fire"), maybe of signal fires. This reference to beacon fires may date from the Viking duration, when the island was possibly understood to the Norse as Bót. Various other feasible derivations include Brythonic budh ("corn"), "triumph", St Brendan, or both, his monastic cell. There is no most likely derivation from Ptolemy's Ebudae. The island was also understood during the Viking period as Rothesay, perhaps 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 major community on the island, whose Gaelic name is Baile Bhòid ("community of Bute").
