Old Photograph Waterfall Scorry Breac Portree Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of the waterfall at Scorry Breac near Portree, Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The River Chracaig finally finds its way to the sea at Scorrybreac, on Portree Bay. Scorrybreac is the land that the Clan Chief of MacNicol occupied for 800 nearly years, and was seat of the Clan until 1825. For many years, the Chiefs of Clan MacNeacail lived at Scorrybreac, on Ben Torvaig, but the last Chief left the island in 1825 and his descendants now live in New South Wales, Australia. In the early 1980s, efforts were made to re-establish Clan MacNeacail societies in Australia and North America, and while that was proceeding, Clan members were advised by the late Ian Ferguson Nicolson, Isle of Man, that the lands of Ben Chracaig were being put up for sale. With its location very close to the old House of Scorrybreac, it was agreed that this would be an ideal purchase for the Clan, the lands to be held in perpetuity for conservation and the enjoyment of both the local people and the visitors to Portree from around the world. Contacts were made with Nicolsons living on the Isle of Skye, and a combined fund raising effort in Scotland, North America, Australia, and New Zealand raised the funds to buy the land outright in 1987. The 130 acres on Ben Chracaig are now administered by Urras Clann MhicNeacail, a trust whose ten board members are drawn from around the world, and by a local Management Committee.



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