Sgeir Chriosnain Berneray Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland
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Subject Source: Local sources
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Notes on the Berneray lighthouse and stormy seas, 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/28
Scope and Contents
Notes on the Beàrnaraigh/Berneray [Barra Head] lighthouse describing its situation and the strength of the seas around it, including how sheep sometimes put out to graze on Sgeir Chriosnain 'A green square island which lies in the sound between Ber[neray] and Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] and which stands about 100 ft high...have been known to have been swept clean off by one wave' and how on Berneray 'large squ[are] stones...[some] weigh 80 tons...were knocked about on the rocky ledges as if...
Dates:
1867