Oblique aerial view centred on the construction of the new pier, with harbour, pier and fish traps adjacent, taken from the NE.

Description Oblique aerial view centred on the construction of the new pier, with harbour, pier and fish traps adjacent, taken from the NE.

Date 10/4/2003

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number SC 1676210

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 35336 CN

Scope and Content Galmisdale from 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 and has been inhabited since the Neolithic (c.4000-2500 BC). Later inhabitants have left the remains of Bronze Age hut circles, Iron Age forts, early medieval burial cairns, Early Christian crosses, Viking boat stems and 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 the new pier under construction in April 2003 (centre left) The two other piers visible are the Clanranald pier within the bay and the 1940s pier (top left). The wooded landscape (top left) relates to the landscaping of Eigg Lodge, built for shooting and recreation in 1898 by the landowner Robert Thompson, and rebuilt in 1926-7, after a fire, by architects Mauchlen and Weightman. 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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