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unusual facts about Isle of Skye



A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Once Johnson reached the West Highlands, there were few roads, none at all on the Isle of Skye, and so they traveled by horseback, usually along the ridge of a hill with a local guide who knew the terrain and the best route for the season.

Carrock Fell

Carrock Fell’s geology is unique in the Lake District in that it is predominantly composed of Gabbro, a rough igneous rock that also makes up the famous Black Cuillin on the Isle of Skye.

Clan MacInnes

Clan MacInnes remains without a Chief, and many of the clan scattered to Appin, Craignish, Lochaber and Skye, but some of the clan continued to occupy the castle.

In the 16th Century, many of the MacInnes Clan moved to Sleat on the Isle of Skye.

Crofters Party

The Highland Land League had started in the Isle of Skye and in 1884 protest action was much more widespread with many thousands of crofters became members of the Highland Land League.

Diapensia lapponica

Although no new species to Britain had been discovered in Scotland since Victorian times, in 1950, the Arctic plant Koenigia islandica had been found on the Isle of Skye, and in 1952, Artemisia norvegica was found on Cùl Mòr.

Domhnall of Islay, Lord of the Isles

Most of the area to the north and east of the Lordship, that is Skye, Ross, Badenoch and Urquhart, was under the control of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, famously known as the "Wolf of Badenoch".

Eilidh Rankin

Eilidh Rankin (Scottish Gaelic: Eilidh NicFhraing) is an actress from Killmaluag (Gaelic: Cill MoLuag) on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

Fred McLeod

McLeod's mother was from Bolton in East Lothian and his father was from the Isle of Skye.

Infectious salmon anemia virus

The suspicions were confirmed, and by the end of the year, the disease had spread to an additional fifteen farms not only on the Scottish mainland but also on Skye and Shetland.

James Macleod

Lieutenant-Colonel James Farquharson Macleod (c. September 25, 1836 – September 5, 1894), born in Drynoch, Isle of Skye, Scotland, was a militia officer, lawyer, NWMP officer, magistrate, judge, and politician in Alberta.

James Macpherson

In the autumn he set out to visit western Inverness-shire, the islands of Skye, North Uist, South Uist and Benbecula.

Mac MacLeod

At the end of the 1960s MacLeod was reunited with Donovan who whisked him off, with a group of other old friends, to the Isle of Skye.

Maeve Mackinnon

In 2005 Mackinnon was awarded a year's scholarship to the Gaelic college Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on the Isle of Skye where she did further study in Gaelic.

Napier Commission

In the early 1880s agitation began in Skye (then in the county of Inverness) and there it became persistent and threatened to spread throughout the Hebrides and the Highlands.

Sarah Cruickshank

Sarah Cruickshank is a Scottish Gaelic broadcaster from the Isle of Skye who works for BBC Scotland.

Té Bheag

It is one of Sir Iain Noble's Gaelic Whisky range, which has its headquarters at Eilean Iarmain on the Isle of Skye.

The Ghost of St. Michael's

An ineffectual science teacher William Lamb (Will Hay) is hired by a school recently transferred because of World War II to the remote Dunbain Castle on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

The Three Chimneys

The Three Chimneys is an award-winning restaurant in Colbost, Isle of Skye, Scotland.

West Coast Motors

Aside from the local stage carriage, West Coast Motors has since 1986 run express services on behalf of Citylink, predominantly on the Campbeltown to Glasgow service, but also on routes serving Oban, Dundee, Edinburgh, Fort William, Inverness and the Isle of Skye.

What Men Deserve to Lose

What Men Deserve To Lose is the fifth album by Scottish Celtic fusion group Peatbog Faeries, recorded in Roag on the Isle of Skye, and was released on 16 July 2007, though the album had been sold at festivals, and from the band's website, since 22 June.

Wimund

Wimund's bishopric of the Isles had its seat on the Isle of Skye.


see also

Arabis alpina

In the British Isles, it is only known to occur in a few locations in the Cuillin Ridge of the Isle of Skye.