Old Photograph Crofters Isle Of Eriskay Scotland

Old photograph of Crofters on Isle of Eriskay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Although only a small island, Eriskay has many claims to fame that have made the island well known far beyond the Hebrides. It is associated with the traditional Hebridean song, the Eriskay Love Lilt; with the Eriskay pony and the Eriskay jersey, made without any seams. It is the real Whisky Galore! island: it was just off Eriskay that the SS Politician ran aground in 1941 with its famous cargo. On 2 August 1745 the privateer Du Teillay landed Bonnie Prince Charlie with his seven men of Moidart on Eriskay to start the 1745 Jacobite Rising.



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