Unknown: Uamh An Tairbh, Loch Varkasaig, Duirinish, Skye, Sea Of The Hebrides

NG24SE 8001 c. 255 417

N57 23 W6 34.1

NLO: Loch Bracadale [name centred NG 285 380]

Skye [name centred NG 45 35].

Formerly entered as NG24SE 8446 at cited location NG 2559 4173 [N 57 23 W 6 34].

(Location cited at NG c. 256 420 and name as Uamh an Tairbh, Loch Varkasaig).

G Ridley 1990.

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = UND

Surveying Details

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16 October 1970. At a place known locally as Bicary Point (possibly after a vessel called BICARY) china plates with a floral decoration have been located in 11 metres. The remains of a large wooden windlass lies on the beach and is dated by the locals to about 1910. The site was located by divers during the summer of 1970.

The position given [NG 2559 4173: N57 23 W6 34] is the approximate location of Bicary Point.

Report by B R Johnson, from a letter dated 7 October 1970 and received via Lloyds, 14 October 1970.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

Neither Uamh an Tairbh nor Bicary Point is noted on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. Neither Larn and Larn nor Whittaker (both works 1998) note the loss of a vessel named Bicary in Scottish waters.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 April 2002.

R and B Larn 1998; I G Whittaker 1998.