The MacKenzies – Derived from 'Mac Coinnich' meaning 'Son of Kenneth' or 'Son of the Fair one' - the clan was found in the western Highlands and the Outer Hebrides ... town of Gordon in the ...

Kisimul Castle, at Castlebay on Barra, in the Outer Hebrides, was the clan Macneil stronghold. Concerns were raised over the lengthy closure of the historic site after its doors closed to the ...

The eighth hole of the Askernish Golf Club on South Uist, an island in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides.Credit ... his love of fishing that would change Gordon Irvine’s life. In 2005, the golf ...

It is the grandest medieval building in the Outer Hebrides and was built by a humpbacked clan chief as a place to bury his kin and exert his status over the islands. Did you know with a Digital ...

Of course, cycling across the Outer Hebrides, there are going to be hills ... built for the chiefs of the Clan MacLeod. From this side of the island, so-called coffin routes led over the mountains ...

Nobody is more weather-obsessed than the islanders of the Outer Hebrides—of this I am certain ... a bagpiper on his upper left arm, and his clan crest on his upper right. Alexander Macpherson ...

In this 1955 photo, a weaver in the Outer Hebrides is shown producing Harris ... Like the country’s other enduring Celtic textile traditions—clan tartans and fuzzy, zigzag pattern Fair Isle ...

The remains of a 2,000-year-old village in the Outer Hebrides which are at risk of ... Ms Graham, who will be supervised by Professor Gordon Noble, said: “There is a huge resource of important ...

You can fly from Glasgow to the Uist archipelago of the Outer Hebrides, but I think you’d ... (the 1746 battle signaled the defeat of the clan-backed effort to restore a Stuart monarch to ...

On the island of Barra, we rambled around Kisimul Castle, ancient stronghold of the Clan MacNeil. The castle sits just offshore on a tiny islet, a situation that made it almost impregnable.

Tucked in the middle of the list of must-sees is the UK's own Outer Hebrides. The beautiful backdrop for the BBC's upcoming Gaelic-language drama "An t-Eilean" ("The Island") is a serene ...