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Old Photographs Elgol Isle Of Skye Scotland
Old photograph of a crofters cottage on Elgol, Isle Of Skye, Scotland. A Scottish village on the shores of Loch Scavaig towards the end of the Strathaird peninsula. According to tradition, its name derives from a battle fought with five ships by Aella, a follower of Vortigern, against the Picts and Scots. The Strathaird peninsula was historically a heartland of the Mackinnons, a robustly Jacobite clan. On 4th of July 1746, the Young Pretender found sanctuary at Elgol in the course of his wanderings under the protection of Mackinnon of Mackinnon and Captain John Mackinnon of Elgol. The cave where he is said to have waited for a boat to the mainland, Prince Charlie’s cave, can still be visited today, a short walk to the south of the village.
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