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Field Visit
Date 1914
Event ID 1103021
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1103021
Bearasay, a precipitous island off the west end of Great Bernera, has the foundations of a few houses close together. It was the stronghold of Neil Macleod for three years before his execution in April 1613.
Cf. Sir R. Gordon's Earldom of Sutherland, p.275
RCAHMS 1928, visited c.1914
OS map: Lewis xi (unnoted).
