Talk:Great Cumbrae

Cumbrae, Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae
I note Cumbrae is currently a redirect to Great Cumbrae, but I imagine there are contexts (eg definitions of local government boundaries) in which Cumbrae means both islands. Laurel Bush 10:48, 6 February 2006 (UTC).

Notable residents
Donald Swan (painter) and Linsey Weir (animator) don't seem to be notable enough to have their own articles or appear in and googling doesn't show anything relevant either, therefore I'm removing them. --JBellis 17:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
 * ditto Linsey Weir, Alexander "Greek" Thomson (architect) has no connection with the island noted here, and the Duncan Macrae page has no hint that he was a resident. ...dave souza, talk 10:27, 1 September 2006 (UTC)During the 1960's Andy Stewart was a resident in Kames Bay for a few years.

Cumbrae, Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae vandalisation
You are absolutely right, there are "contexts" - unfortunately you don't get them.

I NOTE -- that non-residents have been butchering this page since my last visit. Will Laurel Bush, Bellis and Dave Souza desist from vandalising this page, please.

Donald Swan's paintings form part of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery collection. He was an important Scottish artist with many works in private and public collections. I guess that you vandals don't know about Ronald Stevenson and James Cumming either - I doubt if even you've heard of the Slade School of Art, Cottier, Leiper, etc. either.

Alexander Greek Thomson - my pal lives in his holiday house. It's over 150 years old. It's documented. STOP MAKING ASSUMPTIONS.

Duncan Macrae has an official Scottish Screen Plaque on public display outside his house on Kames Bay. Hardly no hint... STOP MAKING ASSUMPTIONS.

OH, AND STOP DESTROYING THE FACTS. THIS PAGE IS A TOTAL SHAMBLES BECAUSE OF DESTRUCTIVE AND INCORRECT EDITING.

I give up. You people don't live here, don't know the heritage, don't know the personalities and yet still delete truthful and verifiable material, replacing it with your own conjecture. STOP GOOGLING AND ACTUALLY LIVE A LIFE.

Another lie - who exactly is Linsey Weir? WHERE has that come from? IT'S RUBBISH! My original entry cites Lynn Ferguson - the voice of Mac in Chicken Run. Cordeaux 21:43, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Page is ruined
Don't believe a word of this article, its been butchered by wiki zealots who are thousands of miles away. Cordeaux 21:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Feel free to revert any of my edits. Re-reading them, I don't think I introduced new information, merely re-arranged existing in an attempt to make the article more encyclopaedic. Local knowledge would be most welcome; above all, challenge anything that is factually wrong. Finavon 22:36, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Distance Confusion
On the Visit Scotland page for Greater Cumbrae it says the island is roughly 4 miles long and 2 miles wide but this page says 4 kilometers long and 2 kilometers wide. Does anyone know what's the right distance? --Alassieth (talk) 22:03, 20 February 2014 (UTC)


 * It is an irregular shape but clearly much closer to 4km x 2km per the OS maps. I've added a reference. You can check for yourself if you click on the co-ordinates at the top right of the page. Ben   Mac  Dui  14:06, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

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Scots name
I added "|scots name=Cumbray (historic)" to the infobox, which was reverted with the comment "Does a now obsolete variant spelling really count as a "Scots name?". Well it wouldn't if the island's modern name was just 'Cumbrae' but the distinction is that (according to Monro), the neighbouring Cumbrae islands were called 'Cumbray' and 'Cumbray of the Dais' in the 16th century, so the logic would be that the name was 'Cumbray' rather than "Great Cumbrae' in modern English. Comments welcome. Ben  Mac  Dui  17:19, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth,
 * OS 6" surveyed 1855 has Great Cumbray, Little Cumbray. . .dave souza, talk 12:17, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks Dave. Kumbra Moir is evidently an anglicised Gaelic. I also note that by the end of the 17th century Martin Martin is referring to "Cumbrae". Ben   Mac  Dui  17:55, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
 * OS 6" surveyed 1855 has Great Cumbray, Little Cumbray. . .dave souza, talk 12:17, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks Dave. Kumbra Moir is evidently an anglicised Gaelic. I also note that by the end of the 17th century Martin Martin is referring to "Cumbrae". Ben   Mac  Dui  17:55, 11 March 2024 (UTC)