Eilean an Taighe

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Please note "Eilean an Taighe", or "Eilean Taigh" is a fairly common island name

looking from Eilean Garbh to Eilean an Taighe on the right and Eilean Mhuire in the distance.

Beach between the two main islands of the Shiants (Garbh Eilean and Eilean an Taighe)

Eilean an T(a)ighe or Eilean an T(a)igh is one of the Shiant Isles. It is joined to the other big island, Garbh Eilean by an isthmus.

[edit] History

There is also evidence of a more recent church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, near the present cottage on Eilean an Taighe.^[1] Eilean Mhuire, one of the other islands also takes its name from Mary.

In 1937 the islands were acquired by Nigel Nicolson, then an undergraduate at Oxford, who like former owner Compton MacKenzie, was later a writer, publisher and politician. Nicolson's son, the writer Adam Nicolson, published the definitive book on the islands, Sea Room. The Shiants now belong to Adam's son Tom. Sheep belonging to a Lewis crofter graze all three islands. The simple bothy restored by Nigel Nicolson on Eilean an Taighe is currently the only habitable structure on the islands. ^[2]

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ Shiant Islands. Retrieved on 2007-07-21.
2. ^ Nicholson, Adam Sea Room: an island life Harper Collins, 2001 (ISBN 0-00-257164-1)

[edit] Bibliography

• Nicolson, Adam (2001). Sea Room: an island life. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-257164-1. 

[edit] External links

• Site about the Shiant Isles

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