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 isle with the mythic figure of Queen Scáthach. The problems with the proposed Gaelic etymologies can be summed up as follows. Firstly, the Gaelic word for "winged" is "sgiathach" and "sgiathanach" is not attested in Gaelic except in the place name and the ethnonym "Sgiathanach" "person from Skye". Secondly, the recorded pronunciations all point towards a clear preceding the "-ach" ending: , , or . This means the form "Sgiathanach" is very unlikely to be based on the Gaelic plural of "wing" ("sgiathan"), which contains a schwa in the last syllable () and would represent a highly unusual adjectival form