islands – Page 2 – The Hazel Tree

Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s skull

May 2, 2021 /

A blissful bay with a 370-year-old story of massacre and revenge... and an unburied skull

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Carnbane Castle and a banquet for a bard
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The Kyle of Tongue: a battle, a hero’s grave and a cow with a gold coin
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The island of Gigha

May 12, 2019 /

Memories of Viking longships haunt this tiny island of windswept sandy bays and cryptic stones

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Ardchattan: in the footsteps of St Baodan
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St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore
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The secrets of St Cormac

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On Eilean Mor in the MacCormaig Isles I found a chapel, a cross, a hermit's cave... and an intriguing mystery

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