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Field Visit
Date 21 August 1914
Event ID 923157
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/923157
Stone, Carragh-broin, Loch nan Arm.
Some 20 yards from the shore at the south-eastern corner of Loch nan Arm, a small loch about 2 miles north-north-east of Lochboisdale, is a small block of stone on the left bank of a rivulet running into the loch. It measures 2 feet in height, 2 feet 7 inches in breadth, and 1 foot 4 inches in thickness, and is named Carragh-broin ("stone of sorrow"), because after a combat at this place a wounded man staggered as far as the stone, when he collapsed, and falling on his knees before it leaned his body against it.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 21 August 1914
OS map: South Uist lvi
