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The Clisham ( Scottish Gaelic: An Cliseam) is a mountain on North Harris, Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. [ 4] At 799 metres (2,621 ft), it is the highest mountain in the Outer Hebrides and the archipelago's only Corbett. [ 1] Climbers often encounter light rain and boggy and muddy terrain. [ 7][ 8]
The Uist MacAulays were centred on the Uists; though they were said to have incomers from the Small Isles. The Macaulay family of Uig in Lewis, known in Scottish Gaelic as Clann mhic Amhlaigh, [1] were a small family located around Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. There is no connection between the Macaulays of Lewis ...
The Isle of Lewis[ 2] ( Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Leòdhais) or simply Lewis ( Scottish Gaelic: Leòdhas, pronounced [ˈʎɔːəs̪] ⓘ) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland. The two parts are frequently referred to as if they were separate islands.
Dun Carloway. / 58.269572; -6.794104. Dun Carloway ( Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Chàrlabhaigh) is a broch situated in the district of Carloway, on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland ( grid reference NB18994122 ). It is a remarkably well preserved broch – on the east side parts of the old wall still reach to 9 metres tall.
Tolsta Chaolais (also Tolastadh Chaolais, Tolstadh a' Chaolais) is a village on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. It consists of about forty houses, clustered around Loch a' Bhaile, about 1 mile (1.5 kilometres) from the A858 road between Callanish and Carloway. The name has a Norse element, Tolsta, combined with a Gaelic element, Caolas, and means ...
The Lewis chessmen ( Scottish Gaelic: Fir-thàilisg Leòdhais [fiɾʲˈhaːlɪʃkʲ loː.ɪʃ]) or Uig chessmen, named after the island or the bay where they were found, [ 1] are a group of distinctive 12th century chess pieces, along with other game pieces, most of which are carved from walrus ivory. Discovered in 1831 on Lewis in the Outer ...
Lewis and Harris is the most populous of the Scottish islands: It had just over 21,000 residents in 2011, [ 4] a rise of 5.6% from the 2001 census total of 19,918. [ 20] Stornoway is the main town of the island, and the civil parish of Stornoway, including the town and various nearby villages, has a population of about 12,000.
Bearasaigh or Bearasay (and sometimes Berisay) is an islet in outer Loch Ròg, Lewis, Scotland. During the late 16th and early 17th centuries it was used as a pirates' hideout and the remains of various buildings from that period still exist. In the modern era its cliffs are used for rock-climbing.