Skye, Broadford, New Pier

Nearby, various early 19th century structures bear witness to the extensive cattle breeding and fishing interests of the tacksman/ merchant and sheriff, Lachlan Mackinnon, "in the absence of Lord Macdonald, for many years the most prominent personage in the island":

Mackinnon's Pier, "a commodious little pier at a short distance from his mansion"; fishgutting and packing station, converted to stables/ steadings and later ruinous, although formed from one byre range is the chapel of St. Maol Ruadh (RC), 2000, with stained glass window by Ian Chard. Boat/coach house, c.1800,a rustic pedimented pavilion backing onto the courtyard, with rubbly engaged columns between pretty round-arched windows to upper floor. Former Campbell's Temperance Hotel, c.1880, a tall, tenement-like pair of storm-dormered buildings, echoing the commercial premises at Broadford, and the pair that formerly stood at Eilean Iarmain.

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

NG62SW 55.06 64419 24219

This pier formed the seaward extremity of the Broadford tramway (NG62SW 55.04). A short length of the track can still be distinguished on the pier, and there was apparently a turnplate at the shoreward end. (MS/716/4).

Information from Dr R Miket (Skye and Lochalsh District Council), September 1993.