Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 564065
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Tower, c.1860. Drum-like folly guarding the bay from its southern headland opposite Rubha Idrigil. It was built for Major William Fraser, owner of Kilmuir estate from 1855. (The house, Uig Lodge, was washed away in the great flood of 1877 just after he had organised Sky's last clearances.)
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk