Thursday, January 21st, 2010
In December 1900, the lighthouse on Eilean Mor in the Flannan Isles, which had only been lit for the first time a year previously, was discovered deserted by its three keepers; their dinner table had been set with cold meat, pickles and potatoes, and a chair was overturned in an obvious urgent ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
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From Sanais,1988.
There lived in Uig, before the advent of the policeman, a man of great physical powers and a wild, lawless nature, who robbed and plundered his neighbours with impunity. To remove him, the crew of a boat to visit the Flannan Isles evolved a plan to maroon him on ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
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This isn't strictly an Uig tale, though one episode takes place on the Flannans, and there is a suggestion that Macpherson may be the grandfather of Kenneth Macpherson the catechist from Bayhead, who married Ann Smith from Strome and Valtos and lived in Ness. It's offered in the hope ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
A tale from Donald Macdonald's Tales and Traditions of the Lews:
Dòmhnall Càm and the big smith went one summer to the Flannan Isles, and the Morrisons of Ness, hearing the Macaulays were from home, came and drove the cows from the moor, for they met with no opposition. When Dòmhnall and his ...
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Stornoway, UNITED KINGDOM