What is recorded here
Kisimul Castle at high tide is a castle, fort or tower in Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland. Perhaps the castle becomes a fortress only when the tide returns it from the sea. Maybe the water carries the life of the stones, and the castle gives that life back at high tide.
A named place photographed at this map point in Na h-Eileanan Siar.
Kisimul Castle was built by the MacNeils of Barra, a powerful clan in the Hebrides, around the 13th or 14th century. It is important as the only inhabited castle in Scotland accessible only by boat or at low tide, symbolizing the strategic and cultural heritage of the Western Isles.
Places near here
Chapel and mortuary at KisimulChurch, cross or graveyard · 15 yd
Caisteal ChiosmuilCastle · 17 yd
Barra, Kiessimul CastleTower House (15th Century) · 21 yd
Castlebay from the PierHeritage place · 193 yd
Heaval Island of BarraIsland · 622 yd
Rough hill ground east of CastlebayMountain or hill · 1132 yd
Bàgh BeagBay · 1136 yd
Seat at the Barra War MemorialHeritage place · 1548 yd
Barra War Memorial - WWIHeritage place · 1559 yd
HeabhalMountain / peak · 1.2 mi
Port Tuath an UidheBay · 1.2 mi
Beach, Uidhe BhatarsaighBeach · 1.3 miOther information
Photo: M J Richardson · CC BY-SA 2.0