Skye and Lochalsh it a stag's head from the arms of Mackenzie of Kintail for the Lochalsh area. The gold coronet above the arms was a special pattern reserved for the arms of Scottish district councils, and was topped by thistle-heads. Skye and Lochalsh Skye and Lochalsh () is one of eight former local government districts of the two-tier Highland region of Scotland. The main offices of the Skye and Lochalsh district council were in Portree, on the Isle of Skye. As statutory local government areas, the region and districts were created in 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, and abolished
Etymology of Skye word for "winged", which may describe the island's peninsulas that radiate out from a mountainous centre, has also been suggested. In the Norse sagas Skye is called "Skíð", for example in the "Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar", and in a skaldic poem in "Saga Magnús konungs berfœtts" in the "Heimskringla" from c. 1230. According to other authors, it was referred to in Norse as "skuy" "misty isle", "*skýey", or "skuyö" "cloud isle". It is not certain whether the Gaelic poetic name for the island, "Eilean a' Cheò" "isle of the mist" precedes or postdates the Norse name. Some legends also associate the