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Skeabost (Scottish Gaelic: Sgeitheabost) [1] is a township, at the head of the sea loch, Loch Snizort Beag in the southern end of the Trotternish peninsula on the island of Skye in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. It was the birthplace of Màiri Mhòr nan Òran.
Skeabost, Post House And Outbuilding 57°27′07″N 6°18′14″W / 57.452015°N 6.303834°W / 57.452015; -6.303834 ( Skeabost, Post House And Outbuilding Category B
Also referred to as Church of St Columba or Skeabost, it was founded under the authority of the Archbishop of Nidaros (Trondheim) in Norway. [2] Amongst its more famous bishops was Wimund , who according to William of Newburgh became a seafaring warlord adventurer in the years after 1147.
There is a house on South Ascrib, the largest of the islands. The islands were bought by Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo in 1985 and put up for sale again in the late 1990s. Together with Isay and Loch Dunvegan , they are designated as a Special Area of Conservation owing to the breeding colonies of the common seal .
The name is thought to be derived from Old Norse vík, which means bay [3] or inlet. Borrowed via Germanic intermediary *wīkō ('harbour town') from Latin vīcus (Classical Latin: [ˈu̯iːkʊs̠], 'village'), Uig shares etymological roots with placenames such as Wick, Highland; Vik, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland; the suffix -wich, and the word village itself.
Edinbane Lodge is the oldest coaching inn on the Isle of Skye, [citation needed] dating from 1543. [5] Originally known as Tigh A Linne it operated as one of three change houses for travellers on their way between Portree and Dunvegan.
The castle was built in the 14th and 15th centuries, when the area was subject to feuds between the rival MacLeod and Macdonald clans, and was abandoned around 1732, when Sir Alexander MacDonald built a new residence, Monkstadt House, 5 miles (8 kilometres) to the south. [21]
Blackhouse at Colbost Folk Museum. The Colbost Croft Museum, also known as the Folk Museum, is a simple open-air exhibit, set in a garden. At the centre of this simple grassy garden is a perfectly preserved 19th century Hebridean crofter's blackhouse, of which there would have been thousands on Skye before the tragic Highland clearances.