Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the Island Of Boreray, Scottish Gaelic: Boraraigh, an uninhabited island, on visit to archipelago of St Kilda, North Atlantic. Boreray is located 41 miles west-northwest of North Uist. Boreray has the Cleitean MacPhàidein, a " cleit village " of three small bothies used regularly during fowling expeditions from Hirta. As a result of a smallpox outbreak on Hirta in 1727, three men and eight boys were marooned on Stac an Armin off the coast of Boreray until the following May. There are two sea stacks, vertical pillars of rock, just off Boreray. Stac An Armin and Stac Lee. It is known that a farming community actually lived on Boreray, perhaps as long ago as the prehistoric period. The agricultural remains and settlement mounds give a tantalising glimpse into the lives of those early inhabitants. Farming what is probably one of the most remote, and inhospitable, islands in the North Atlantic would have been a hard and gruelling existence. And given the island’s unfeasibly steep slopes, it’s amazing that they even tried living there in the first place.
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