Inchmickery

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title: Inchmickery
text: Inchmickery is a small island in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It is about two miles (3.2 km) north of Edinburgh. Its name comes from the Scottish Gaelic, Innis nam Biocaire, meaning Isle of the Vicars, implying that there may have been an old ecclesiastical or Culdee settlement here, as in nearby Inchcolm. It features occasionally in a riddle, "How many inches is the Forth?", playing on a pun on 'Inch' (Innis), the Gaelic word for island, and inch, the imperial measurement. Inchmickery is tin
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description: Uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth, Scotland
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchmickery
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date modified: 2023-04-07T07:26:25Z
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