Oblique aerial view centred on the lodge and gardens, taken from the ENE.

Description Oblique aerial view centred on the lodge and gardens, taken from the ENE.

Date 10/4/2003

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number SC 1676205

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 35331 CN

Scope and Content The Lodge and Galmisdale from the east, Eigg, Small Isles, Highland The island of Eigg is one of the Small Isles along with Canna, Rum and Muck. It lies 16km off the west coast of Scotland. It has been inhabited since at least Neolithic times (c.4000-2500 BC), and later inhabitants have left traces of their lives in the form of Bronze Age hut circles, Iron Age forts, early medieval square burial cairns, early Christian crosses, Viking boat stems and the remains of 19th-century townships. The island was bought in 1997 by its residents in conjunction with the Scottish Wildlife Trust and the Highland Council. This shows part of Galmisdale bay, home to the piers and jetties by which most people now reach the island. Roads lead up from the shore towards The Lodge, the largest house on the island (right). The original 'Lodge' was built in 1898 for the island's new owner, Robert Thompson. The structure visible today stands in exotic gardens and was rebuilt (1926-7) after a fire for Lord Runciman, a wealthy ship-owner who used the island as a sporting estate. The building of the original lodge house in the 1890s saw some of the last compulsory clearances on the islands, as tenants were moved to new crofts at Churach near Cleadale. Stones from the Galmisdale crofts were used to build the boundary walls of the new estate. Robert Thompson did help to improve the island, however, providing the island with its first motor boat ferry, and improving farming techniques. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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