Corrie, Arran

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Corrie (Scottish Gaelic: An Coire) is a village on the east coast of the Isle of Arran in Scotland, 6 miles north of Brodick. It lies under the island's highest mountain, Goatfell, and a path provides access to the hillside.

The villages used to be a regular stop for steamers circumnavigating the island, passengers embarked by way of a rowing boat from the "ferry rock". The ferry rock is located midway between the villages two quays. The southernmost quay is known as the "sandstone quay". This harbour and quay used to be the location where sandstone blocks from the nearby quarry were shipped to the mainland, and huge pieces of stone can still be seen. The northernmost quay is "Corrie port" and was also used for shipping products to other locations on the island, the mainland and other islands. Small coastal cargo vessels of a type known as the Clyde puffer were a commons sight in the port and the sandstone quay during their heyday. There was also a limestone "mine" in the village, which has a roof lined with fossils of Gigantoproductus.

It currently has one hotel/pub, The Corrie Hotel.

The village shop was sold circa-1987 (since converted into a family home) and is now based near the local craft shops. There have been a few owners since the early 1990s, and in the early-2000s the owners have stocked many organic foods as well as the usual grocery products as before.

High Corrie, nestling above the village has long been favoured by artists and was home to Robert McLellan.