Scottish Highlands Towns and Villages
Eigg holiday accommodation cottages, cabins, caravans and hotels.
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Eigg, The island of Eigg (Gaelic: 'a hollow') lies close to the Scottish mainland, almost opposite Mallaig, a craggy peak rising to 1289 ft. Stands by a l,OOO ft contour, it is a residual block of pitchstone lava, Eigg's main settlement is Cleadale, a crofting town. The island's chief land-use feature is the extensive home farm, an estate, of lush woodland, and a semitropical garden. A cave on Eigg, Uamh Fhraing (near the southernmost tip of the Eigg coast), was the scene in 1577 of a massacre of the MacDonalds by the Macleods of Skye who, had used the cave for shelter, piled brushwood at the cave's entrance and set fire to it.
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Two hundred MacDonalds died in this avenging of a supposed wrong. In the Bay of Laig, on the west side of the island, are the Singing Sands which emit sounds under the walker's feet, resembling the strains of an Aeolian harp. This sound occurs at times of changes in temperature, such as at sunset. |
