Raasay, Glen Lodge
Lodge (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Raasay, Glen Lodge
Classification Lodge (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 276105
Site Number NG53NE 126
NGR NG 56288 36287
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/276105
- Council Highland
- Parish Portree
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Glen Lodge, c.1876, one of three sturdy keepers' cottages built to guard the deer fence gates, with later gabled porch. The POW's road affords access from here to the small settlement of Fearns, from where a mossy track leads to the haunting 'grass-grown ruined homes' of Hallaig, cleared by Rainy in 1854. Sorley Maclean's haunting elegy to the ghosts of this now silent village is one of the most important Gaelic poems of the 20th century.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
