Barra
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Barra is an island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and the second southernmost inhabited island there, after the adjacent island of Vatersay to which it is connected by the Vatersay Causeway.
The Village of Castlebay from the sea with Kisimul Castle in the foreground and the heights of Heaval beyond
Neolithic "work platform", near Vatersay
Standing stone at Borve
Iron Age wheelhouse near Vatersay
Castlebay
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Castlebay is the main village and a community council area on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The village is located on the south coast of the island, and overlooks a bay in the A
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…30° to the east or northeast. Palaeoproterozoic age metadiorites and metatonalites forming a part of the East Barra Meta-igneous Complex occur around Castlebay as they do on the neighbouring islands of Vatersay and Flodday. A few metabasic dykes intrude the gneiss in the east. The island is traversed by a…
Kisimul Castle, the ancient seat of Clan MacNeil, and part of the town as seen from Heaval
Kisimul castle in the bay of Castlebay
Castlebay village and the heights of Heaval, from Vatersay
The Main Street Castlebay