Eriskay

At the start of the Jacobite rising of 1745, the privateer Du Teillay arrived at Eriskay On 2 August 1745 and temporarily put Prince Charles Edward Stuart and the Seven Men of Moidart ashore. The sandy beach where the prince first set foot upon Scottish soil is called in his honour Coilleag a' Phrionnsa ("The Cockleshell Strand of the Prince"). In 1995, a memorial cairn was erected with an inscription that includes the first stanza of Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair's iconic song-poem Òran Eile don Phrionnsa:

there were no hotels, two or three bed-and-breakfast establishments, and until recently few self-catering cottages or houses. Since the completion in 2001 of the causeway to South Uist and the inauguration of the vehicle ferry to Barra, a number of properties have been professionally renovated or purpose-built as holiday accommodation. The machair and beaches from Coilleag a' Phrionnsa to Rudha Bàn are increasingly popular with visitors travelling with their motor-homes. The island is home to a herd of Eriskay Ponies owned and maintained by members of Comann Each nan Eilean – The Eriskay Pony Society, founded in 1972. The ponies are bound by crofting regulations and are brought to the hill…