Oldshore Beg
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Oldshore Beg is a remote crofting township
Township
The word township is used to refer to different kinds of settlements in different countries. Township is generally associated with an urban area. However there are many exceptions to this rule. In Australia, the United States, and Canada, they may be settlements too small to be considered urban...

, in western Sutherland
Sutherland
Sutherland is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic administrative county of Scotland. It is now within the Highland local government area. In Gaelic the area is referred to according to its traditional areas: Dùthaich 'IcAoidh , Asainte , and Cataibh...

, Scottish Highlands
Scottish Highlands
The Highlands is an historic region of Scotland. The area is sometimes referred to as the "Scottish Highlands". It was culturally distinguishable from the Lowlands from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands...

 and is in the Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 council area of Highland.

The hamlets of Balchrick
Balchrick
Balchrick is a township on the north east shore of Lairg in Sutherland, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.Balchrick lies entirely within the estate of John Muir Trust's Sandwood Estate....

, Droman
Droman, Sutherland
Droman is a small remote crofting township on the north west coast of Lairg in Sutherland, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland....

, Blairmore and Oldshoremore
Oldshoremore
Oldshoremore is a remote scattered crofting township, located in the west coast of Sutherland, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland....

  are all located with 0.5 miles of Oldshore Beg and are reached along the coast road from the south which passes through Achriesgill
Achriesgill
Achriesgill is a village that lies at the head of Loch Inchard in Lairg, Sutherland, in the Scottish council area of Highland....

, Badcall
Badcall
Badcall is the name of several small settlements in Sutherland in northwest Scotland:*Badcall, Rhiconich - near Rhiconich and Kinlochbervie, on Loch Inchard*Badcall, Scourie - made up of Lower Badcall and Upper Badcall, on Badcall Bay, near Scourie...

 and Kinlochbervie
Kinlochbervie
Kinlochbervie is a harbour village in the north west of Sutherland, in the Highland region of Scotland. In 2001 the population was 480.The majority of local industry is based upon the fishing industry...

 to reach Oldshore Beg from Rhiconich
Rhiconich
Rhiconich is a remote hamlet, located at the head of Loch Inchard, in Sutherland, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland...

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Oldshore Beg overlooks the small island of Eilean an Ròin Mòr
Eilean an Ròin Mòr
Eilean an Ròin Mòr is an uninhabited island in north west Sutherland.-Geography:Eilean an Ròin Mòr, with its neighbour, Eilean an Ròin Beag, forms rocky peninsula to the north of Oldshoremore beach. Only a narrow channel separates it from the mainland....

which is uninhabited.
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