Lòn Reudle

A cairn beside the B8073 with Loch Tuath in the far distance.

A deserted settlement comprising about 15 unroofed buildings and other enclosures. Crackaig, along with the nearby deserted settlement of Glac Gugairidh, is a scheduled monument (SM10577). A dwelling house at the eastern end of the settlement has ship graffiti carved on the outside wall. Local tradition has it that this was carved by one of the last inhabitants and represents the ship that was to take the people away across the Atlantic to their new home in America. A single-roomed structure 175m to the SSE of the main cluster of buildings at Crackaig is said to be the schoolhouse. Link According to a local blog about the old ash tree at Crackaig: "Crackaig and Glac Gugairigh were abandoned, not because of the Highland clearances but following a typhoid epidemic in the late 19th century when the disease almost wiped out the populations of both villages. It is rumoured that the last remaining resident refused to leave his home and hanged himself from the only tree in the area." Link

Looking over to Ulva Island.

The circular pool in the rocks at the sea edge is prominent in the aerial imagery provided by OS Maps.

Trap landscape, Treshnish.

This cairn marks the highest point of the B8073 road as it crosses the neck of the peninsula separating Calgary Bay and Loch Tuath. Out to sea can be seen Eilean Dioghlum NM3442 with Staffa NM3235 beyond.

Sheep on the path at the approach to the ruined settlement of Glac Gugairidh.

Abandoned [or possibly cleared] in the 19th century, this settlement consisted of thatched croft cottages with evidence of runrig agriculture around. The Gaelic name means 'the hollow of the dark grazings'.

The lower of the two settlements on the moorland above a cliffed coastline. It is probably 150 years since these crofts were inhabited.

Blackface ewe on the cliffs at Crackaig. The view is along Loch Tuath towards snow covered Ben More.

Ben More and its outlying tops dominate the skyline

Top of the pass over Treshnish - view towards Ben More.

Highest point of the road over Treshnish between Kilninian and Calgary.

Above the Kilninian to Calgary road. It took a short rough climb to get into the grid square.