Field Visit
Date 25 September 1909
Event ID 1095809
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1095809
47. Island, Loch Brora. Situated on Loch Brora, towards the S. end, is a small island formed of boulders, said to be artificial, named on the O.S. map ‘Eilean nam Faoileag’. No signs of building remain visible on the level top, but along the E. face for 30' or 40' are the remains of a retaining wall some 4' to 5' high. On the E. and W. faces, near the N. end, two built recesses probably indicate the position of the stairs mentioned in the New Statistical Account. At the S. end a circular depression may mark the site of the well. The island appears to have been occupied by the Earl of Sutherland as a hunting seat in the 17th century. Sir Robert Gordon thus mentions it: ‘In Loch Broray there is ane ileand where the Erle of Southerland has a delectable habitation and pleasant for hunting of reed deir and roes in the woods on both syds of the laik’.
See Gordon, p. 5 ; Stat. Acct., x. p. 303; New Stat. Acct.
Suth., etc., xv. p. 155.
OS 6-inch map: Sutherland Sheet xcvii.
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 25th September 1909.
