Sound of Sleat

It divides the Sleat peninsula on the south-east side of the Isle of Skye from Morar, Knoydart and Glenelg on the Scottish mainland.

The Sound extends in a south-south west direction for 19+1⁄2 miles (31.5 kilometres) from Loch Alsh.

[2] The name is inherited from the peninsula to the north of the Sound, which derives its name from its Scottish Gaelic form Sléibhte (or Slèite), which in turn comes from Old Norse sléttr meaning smooth or even.

On the Skye side of the Sound sit Knock Castle, a former stronghold of the MacDonalds, and the village of Armadale.

The Sound is traversed on a regular basis in the summer by a ferry operating between Glenelg and Kylerhea.