2020

NG4162 : Fairy Circle and Lon Airigh-uige

taken 4 years ago, near to Balnaknock, Isle of Skye, Scotland

This is 1 of 3 images, with title starting with Fairy in this square
Fairy Circle and Lon Airigh-uige
Fairy Circle and Lon Airigh-uige
The Lon Airigh-uige (Uig Shieling Burn) is visible across the wide Glen Conon, a proposed site for a mini-hydro scheme.

Glen Conon is notable, along with other locations in the northwest of Skye, for a great flood that occurred in the region on Sunday 13 October 1877. The flood wrought by far the greatest havoc in the north part of the island, where the rivers drain into the western seaboard. For destructiveness, the flood was unprecedented in Skye, the descent of waters from the hills, where the rain cloud seems to have burst, being sudden and overwhelming.
The Conan and the Hinnisdale thundered down in terrible volume, carrying away bridges like matchwood, obliterating crops, sweeping flocks of sheep into the sea, and entirely changing, in several places, the face of the country. At Uig, the ancient graveyard was largely carried away, and hundreds of corpses, in all stages of decay, were scattered up and
down the shore, or reburied under the debris, the result of landslips, which was carried down in hundreds of tons.

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Geographical Context: Geological interest Uplands Grassland Rivers, Streams, Drainage Place: Fairy Glen Skye Isle of Skye Near: Fairy Glen Uig Primary Subject: Landscape other tags: Fairy Glen Glen Conon Skye Isle of Skye Scottish Islands Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Glen Uig [11] · Sheep [4] · Fairy Circle [3] · Skye [3] · Bridge [2] ·
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NG4162, 79 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Andy Stephenson   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 14 January, 2020   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 21 January, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NG 41644 62980 [1m precision]
WGS84: 57:34.9626N 6:19.4372W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NG 4162 6296
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Northeast (about 45 degrees)
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