Isleornsay, Pier General View

Description Isleornsay, Pier General View

Date 19/5/1976

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 493548

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Isleornsay Isleornsay in the south of Skye is a strongly Gaelic crofting community that attracts year-round visitors. The village hotel's hospitality and local sea fishing accounts for much of this appeal. En-route to the Gaelic college and seat of the Lords of the Isles, in Armadale, Isleornsay, or Eilean Iarmain, is an obvious stopover. And the cuisine of nearby Kinloch Hotel is world renowned. The Isle of Skye, long influenced by Gaelic and Viking culture, has a complex topography of volcanic mountains, restless sea lochs and placid lochans, basaltic cliffs, scenic islets and tumbling salmon rivers. Crofting is its heritage but tourism the hub of today's expanding economy. This pier was built as the western terminal of a ferry crossing formed as part of Telford's Highland Roads and Bridges improvement scheme of the early 19th century, It is substantially constructed of drystone rubble. This view shows the pier from the west. The pier is still in as-designed condition, with its original cobbled surface, and the curved wing walls at the shore end. Most of the other surviving Telford-period ferry piers in the Highlands have been altered to some extent. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H76/109/4

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/493548

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