Local Quiz

[xword addict]

The answers are Scottish islands, I posted some of these before and received answers but I do not think they fit can anyone help? Thank you to those who helped last time.
1 Isthmus
2 Eric's isle
3 close by or miles to this island
I would appreciate if you can help please will you tell me how you get your answer. Thank you

[mallyh]

2 rothesay.......theres an eric roth screen writer

[mallyh]

3 inchcolm ..........colm meaney played miles o' brien in star trek

[fiction-factory]

Any of these for 1?

Forth-Clyde isthmus in Scotland
Mavis Grind isthmus in Shetland
Rhins of Galloway isthmus in Wigtownshire (where Stranraer is situated), Scotland
Tarbert is the name of several places at isthmuses in Scotland and Ireland.
The isthmus connecting Stornoway, Isle of Lewis in Scotland to the Eye Peninsula

[Toorak]

Could 2 be Jura? George Orwell ( eric Blair) lived and wrote animal farm there

[xword addict]

Thank you all very much