Flodday

There are many small islands in Scotland called Flodday (Scots Gaelic: Flodaigh) or similar and this list provides a guide to their location. The derivation of the name is from the Old Norse floti meaning 'raft' or 'float'.^[1] The similar island names Fladda and Flotta are also from the Norse flatr and mean 'flat island'.^[2] Usage is not always consistent in external sources.

Outer Hebrides

Lewis near Great Bernera/Beàrnaraigh

• Flodaigh, Lewis (NB105335), in inner Loch Roag, Lewis, opposite the hamlet of Cairisiadar.
• Flodaigh, Outer Loch Ròg (NB120415), in outer Loch Roag, west of the islet of Hairsgeir and south of Bearasaigh.

Harris

• Fladday (NA993152), between Scarp and Harris.

North Uist

• Flodday, Loch Maddy (NF940695), in Loch Maddy
• Flodaigh Beag (Floddaybeg) (NF917580) (the Gaelic meaning is 'small raft island') south east of North Uist.
• Flodaigh Mòr (Floddaymore) (NF913570) (the Gaelic meaning is 'big raft island'), south east of North Uist.

Benbecula

• Flodaigh (also referred to as 'Flodda'^[3]) (NF845555), a tidal island to the north of Benbecula.

Barra

• Flodday, Sound of Barra (NF750020), which lies east of Fuiay/Fuidheigh to the north east of Barra.
• Flodday near Vatersay (NL610925), one mile west of Sandray in the Bishop's Isles south of Barra.

Inner Hebrides

• Eilean Fladday (NG585505), on the north west coast of Raasay, just north of Arnish.
• Fladda (NM720123), an islet with a lighthouse south east of Belnahua in the Slate Islands.
• Fladda, Treshnish Isles (NM295435) in the Treshnish Isles.
• Staffin Island off the east coast of the Trotternish peninsula of Skye may have been known as Fladdaidh.^[4]
• Fladda-chùain ('flat island of The Minch') (NG365815), an island north of the Trotternish peninsula, Skye.

Orkney

• Flotta (ND355945), an island in Scapa Flow, Orkney.
• Calf of Flotta (ND380966), an island also in Scapa Flow, near Flotta.

Shetland

• Flotta (HU375462), an island in Weisdale Voe.
• Fladda (HU215845), an island north of the entrance to Hamna Voe, near the island of Muckle Ossa.
• Fladda (HU375975), an island north of the Mainland in the Ramna Stacks near the island of Gruney.

Main references

• Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
• 1:50,000 (Map). Ordnance Survey.

Footnotes

1. Iain Mac an Tàilleir. "Placenames" (pdf). Pàrlamaid na h-Alba. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
2. Orkney placenames. Orkneyjar. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
3. General Register Office for Scotland (28 November 2003) Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands. Retrieved 22 Jan 2011.
4. "Fladdaidh" Staffin Community Trust. Retrieved 12 February 2011.