Galtrigill

Galltrigill
The Manners Stone is marked as such on the OS map. It sits in a field near the end of the surfaced road at Galtrigill. Once there was a big village here. Now there is just a scattering of ruins.
Galltrigill is located in Isle of Skye
Galltrigill
Galltrigill
Location within the Isle of Skye
OS grid referenceNG186539
Council area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDunvegan
Postcode districtIV55 8
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish
List of places
UK
Scotland
57°29′17″N 6°41′46″W / 57.48816°N 6.69614°W / 57.48816; -6.69614

Galtrigill (Scottish Gaelic: Galtraigil) is a largely abandoned crofting township on the far north end of the east side of the Duirinish peninsula on the Isle of Skye, and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.[1]

The villages of Borreraig, Uig and Totaig are located directly south. The Stone of Manners (Scottish Gaelic: Clach a Mhodha) lies north of Galtrigill, and is the only one known to exist on the Isle of Skye.[2]

Ruined settlement south of Galltrigill

References

  1. ^ Clive Aslet (2011). Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 578. ISBN 978-1-4088-1799-5.
  2. ^ Otta Swire (2006). Skye: The Island and its Legends. Birlinn. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-85790-971-8.
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