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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 567302
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/567302
SCALPAY (off Skye)
Roundish, hilly isle of three by four miles for which Dr Johnson proposed in 1773 that a school and episcopal chapel should be built, 'and a printing press where we should print all the Erse that could be found.' Formerly owned by the Macdonalds of Sleat, Scalpay was bought c. 1890 by Sir Donald Currie of the Castle Line shipping company. He remodelled the 18th century tacksman's residence, Scalpay House, which looks over to Broadford and down the Kyle of Lochalsh from the south-east end of the island. Nearby is Teampall Fraing, a small limemortared ruin in a burial ground. Scalpay is still privately owned and has a population of six.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
