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Chambered cairn
Barpa Langass
Neolithic chambered cairn about 5,000 years old, around 22 metres across and 5.5 metres high, on North Uist.
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The Uists & Benbecula: things to do
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Things to do in The Uists & Benbecula
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Stone circle
Pobull Fhinn
Prehistoric stone circle on North Uist near Langass; the Gaelic name can be translated as Fionn's people.
Iron Age broch
Dun an Sticir
Iron Age broch in a loch about 9.5 km north of Lochmaddy; a building was raised on the site in the late medieval period.
Ruined nunnery
Teampull na Trionaid
Ruins of a 13th-century Augustinian nunnery at Carinish, believed to be a daughter house of the Iona nunnery.
Nature reserve
Balranald RSPB Reserve
RSPB reserve on the west coast of North Uist with sandy beaches, a rocky shore, marshes and dunes.
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Folly
Scolpaig Tower
Georgian folly near the village of Scolpaig in the north-west of North Uist.
Museum and arts centre
Taigh Chearsabhagh
Museum and arts centre in Lochmaddy for heritage, visual arts and Gaelic culture, with a café and exhibitions.
Ruined tower house
Borve Castle
Ruined 14th-century tower house, also called Castle Wearie, in the south-west of Benbecula; a scheduled monument.
Statue
Our Lady of the Isles
Large sculpture of the Madonna and Child on the hillside above the A865 in South Uist.
Ruined mansion
Ormacleit Castle
Shell of an early 18th-century house built for the Clanranald chief and said to have burned down in 1715.
Iron Age broch
Dun Vulan
Iron Age broch on the west coast of South Uist, near Bornish.
Museum
Kildonan Museum
Museum of South Uist life with more than 10,000 items, plus a café and a craft shop, in a former school.
Beach
Prince's Beach, Eriskay
Coilleag a' Phrionnsa, the beach named after Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who arrived on Eriskay on 2 August 1745.
Church
St Michael's Church, Eriskay
Roman Catholic church of 1903, built on the initiative of the Gaelic poet and priest Fr Allan MacDonald.
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Isle of Lewis & Stornoway
Stornoway, the Calanais Stones, blackhouses and the Butt of Lewis
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Isle of Harris & Tarbert
White beaches, the Bays, Tarbert and the church at Rodel
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- The Uists & Benbecula (area photo): Helen Spencer, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Barpa Langass: Tom Parnell, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Pobull Fhinn: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dun an Sticir: Helen Spencer, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Teampull na Trionaid: MatthewVernon, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Balranald RSPB Reserve: Alan Jamieson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Scolpaig Tower: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Taigh Chearsabhagh: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Borve Castle: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Our Lady of the Isles: Sandy Gerrard, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Ormacleit Castle: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Dun Vulan: Sandy Gerrard, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Kildonan Museum: Stephen Darlington, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Prince's Beach, Eriskay: Mike O'Shea, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- St Michael's Church, Eriskay: Euan Nelson, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Barra & Vatersay: Conor Lawless from North Uist, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, source
- Isle of Lewis & Stornoway: LornaMCampbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Isle of Harris & Tarbert: Zenit, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
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