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Western Isles
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Western Isles Council/ Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
Or; on a fess wavy azure,between three lymphads, oars in action, sails furled, sable, flagged gules, two barrulets wavy argent
coronet - islands area council
supporters - dexter, a golden eagle proper, and, sinister, a unicorn argent, armed, maned and unguled or, and gorged of a collar gules, pendent therefrom an oval badge azure, fimbriated or, charged with a saltire argent
motto - on the compartment, Ardaichidh Fireantachd Cinneach
badge - a lymphad, sail furled, oars in action, surmounting a circlet sable
Public Register - 59/51; 9 September 1976
The arms were new to Scots civic heraldry when granted a generation ago.
Though barely a generation old, the bearings of the islands areas are the oldest of the 1996 area councils as the 1996 island area councils have the same powers and geography as the 1975 islands area councils, which had no subsidiary district councils, unlike the 1975 mainland regional councils. In 1996 the islands area councils therefore continued to use the 1975 bearings without needing to have new arms recorded.
community councils with bearings - none
for more information see R M Urquhart: Scottish Civic Heraldry 2, 2001; Scottish Civic Heraldry, 1979; and Scottish Burgh & County Heraldry, 1973
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