Story entitled 'Loch Utramal', March 1874

Story entitled 'Loch Utramal' [Loch Udromuil Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] collected from John Morrison, ground officer, describing it as a large lake near Airdsleave [Àird Shlèibhe] where his father told him that during hard frost thick ice on the loch was broken right through and a pathway made from shore to island noting that it 'must have been made by animal 40 y[ea]rs ago'. The story also tells how a woman saw a strange looking animal moving among her cattle one morning, the animal was seen by others too and is described as '[with] grey long hair longer than a cow's ab[ou]t [the] size of a foal or 1 y[ea]r colt. Round hoof like a horse with a spin down into ground behind hoof.' Any time the animal has been seen, it has been around Loch Udromuil, which is the largest lake in Harris except for Loch Langabhat.