Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Sligachan Bridge on ancestry visit to the Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides. Sligachan, Scottish Gaelic: Sligeachan, is a small settlement on Skye. It is close to the Cuillin mountains and provides a good viewpoint for seeing the Black Cuillin mountains. The Sligachan Old Bridge which spans the River Sligachan was built between 1810 and 1818 by engineer Thomas Telford. Tradition has it that the Lord of the Isles attacked Skye in 1395, but William MacLeod met the MacDonalds at Sligachan and drove them back to Loch Eynort or Ainort. There they found that their galleys had been moved offshore by the MacAskills and every invader was killed. The spoils were divided at Creag an Fheannaidh also known as Rock of the Flaying, or Creggan ni feavigh also known as Rock of the Spoil, sometimes identified with the Bloody Stone in Harta Corrie.
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