CE Uig walked out to the shielings at Gearraidh an Uisge and Gearraidh Thodail, both used turn-about by Kneep until just before the war. At Gearraidh an Uisge (NB106272) there are the two substantial structures (the later built by Baxter in the 1930s), at least one older one nearby and the scant remains of two [...]
Read more →Excerpts from Stornoway Gazette, Local and District News (Uig) April 5th, 1918 FRIENDS FROM ACROSS THE SEA: One of the few pleasurable results of this terrible and miserable war is the occasional opportunity offered to friends and relations at home of meeting and welcoming friends and relations from beyond the seas – friends whom, in the [...]
Read more →Ceilidh at the shieling. CE Uig invites you to join us for a short walk out for a ceilidh and a picnic. We are thinking about rebuilding a shieling and will be visiting several over the summer to talk about the possibilities. Airidh Gearraidh an Uisge (NB106272) was built by the Baxter from 6 Kneep [...]
Read more →From the Diary of John Munro Mackenzie, Chamberlain of the Lews. Reef had been cleared of its 186 tenants a few years previously . In the end, Kneep was never cleared, though many did emigrate from both Valtos and Kneep. Wednesday 12 February, 1851 Wrote letters to Stornoway [from Callanish], afterwards proceeded to Reef and [...]
Read more →Some pictures (thanks Jutta) of the excavation of the Iron-age wheelhouse at Kneep over several years in the late 1980s. The wheelhouse was completely buried in the dunes at the edge of Kneep beach but was exposed after erosion from winter storms. The site consisted of two wheelhouses – one never completed – and was occupied ca. 200BC-200AD. The [...]
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