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Note
Date 4 October 2001
Event ID 818931
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/818931
NM48SE 8005 48497 83887
N56 52.691 W6 7.709
NLO: Galmisdale [name centred NM 480 837]
Galmisdale Point [name: NM 485 837]
Eigg [name centred NM 47 87].
The boat in Galmisdale Bay was first reported in spring 2001 by the local lobsterman, who had been told it was clinker built and held together with wooden pegs, not iron nails. It only became visible in very low tides and when the sands shifted in a particular way, and there were only two recorded sightings over the last century, the last about 40 years ago.
Camille Dressler has reported the re-emergence of the boat in three feet of mud 'about 5m' SE of the intended line of the new causeway (at an estimated location of NM 4852 8390). Brig Lancaster, a carpenter on Eigg, has retrieved a timber, which has been described to me as being broad for a boat timber, hand finished, with a wooden dowel driven into it. A lump of corroded iron was found within the boat.
The wreck is locally believed to be that of the Dubh Ghleannag, which was owned by an 18th-century MacDonald of Glenaladale and is commemorated in Gaelic poetry. It was traditionally wrecked off Kildonnan Point [Kildonnan: NM 490 851] at the mouth of Galmisdale Bay in 1817.
Information from RCAHMS (SDB), 4 October 2001.
B R S Megaw 1961; C Dressler 1998.
