Eilean Mhuire

Eilean Mhuire
Scottish Gaelic nameEilean Mhuire
Meaning of nameGaelic for "Virgin Mary's island".[1]
Location
Eilean Mhuire is located in Outer Hebrides
Eilean Mhuire
Eilean Mhuire
Eilean Mhuire shown within the Outer Hebrides
OS grid referenceNG432985
Coordinates57°54′00″N 6°20′06″W / 57.90°N 6.335°W / 57.90; -6.335
Physical geography
Island groupShiant Islands
Area30.3 hectares (75 acres)[2]
Highest elevationc.90 metres (300 ft)[3]
Administration
Council areaComhairle nan Eilean Siar
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Demographics
Population0 [4]
Lymphad
Eilean Mhuire from Garbh Eilean

Eilean Mhuire (meaning "Virgin Mary's island") is the most easterly of the Shiant Islands in the Outer Hebrides.

Once populated, Eilean Mhuire is now used only for grazing sheep. There was an old local tradition that said there used to be a chapel on the island. There are various ruins on the island, and the Ordnance Survey mark some remains as that of a “St. Mary's Chapel" on the western side of the island. But this is based only on information provided in 1851 that the island had been the refuge of a priest "in the time of Knox".[5] Nicolson (2002) has concluded that this tradition is mistaken, but has speculated that Eilean Mhuire may instead have been a hermitage in pre-Norse times.[6] (And there was in fact a chapel on nearby Eilean an Taighe, possibly devoted to the Virgin Mary.)[7][8]

In 1549, Donald Monro, then Dean of the Isles, wrote that Eilean Mhuire was:

callit Senchastle by the Eriche, that is the alde castle ile in the Englishe, an strenthe, full of corne and grassinge, full of wyld fowls nests, and verey guid for fishing. It perteins to M’Cloyd of the Lewis.[9][Note 1]

Today, Seann Chaisteal (“old castle”) is the name of the flat-topped tidal islet at the south-eastern extremity of Eilean Mhuire. This islet is a "large tidal rock on which there never was a building of any kind",[10] so the name may simply have been inspired by the rock's shape and appearance.

Notes and references

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Notes
  1. ^ Translation from Scots: "called Senchastle in Gaelic, meaning the "old castle isle" in English, a stronghold full of corn and pasture, full of wild fowl's nests, and very good for fishing. It is owned by Clan MacLeod of Lewis.
Footnotes
  1. ^ Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 278
  2. ^ Nicolson (2002) p. 143
  3. ^ "Get-a-map" Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
  4. ^ Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 262.
  5. ^ Nicolson (2002) p. 142
  6. ^ Nicolson (2002) pp. 112, 142-43
  7. ^ Martin (1703) p. 35
  8. ^ Nicolson (2002) p. 144
  9. ^ Monro (1549) "Senchastle" No. 176
  10. ^ "Seann Chaisteal, Eilean Mhuire, Shiant Islands". Scotland's Places. Retrieved 11 Apr 2011.
General references
  • Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
  • Martin, Martin (1703) A Description of The Western Islands of Scotland (Circa 1695) . Appin Regiment/Appin Historical Society. Retrieved 3 March 2007
  • Monro, Sir Donald (1549) Description of the Western Isles of Scotland. William Auld. Edinburgh - 1774 edition.
  • Nicolson, Adam (2002) Sea Room. London. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-653201-2

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