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		Isle of South Uist - Uibhist a Deas
		South Uist is now linked to the Isle of Eriskay by a causeway: an indoor highlight on Eriskay is the pub, restaurant and guesthouse, "Am Politician" named after the real cargo ship full of whisky that sank off the Isle of Eriskay back in the 1940s: Compton Mackenzie's inspiration for his fantastic novel, Whisky Galore.
		South Uist is notable for its views and range of walks: you can find yourself strolling through a deserted flhouse village in an empty valley one day and then experiencing dramatic cliffs and coastal coves the next.
	www.visithebrides.com /islands/suist (208 words)

	South Uist: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Flora macdonald (1722 - march 5, 1790), jacobite heroine, was the daughter of ranald macdonald of milton in the island of south uist in the hebrides,...
		Lochboisdale (lochbaghasdail) is the main ferry terminal for the island of south uist and is undergoing a revival of fortunes after a period of closures of...
		North uist (scottish gaelic: uibhist a tuath) is an island of the outer hebrides....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/south_uist.htm (1910 words)

	South Uist Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		South Uist is the second largest of the islands in the Western Isles, measuring some 22 miles north to south and 7 miles from east to west.
		South Uist stayed overwhelmingly Catholic after the Reformation, and it remains the focus of Gaelic culture to this day: despite the efforts over the centuries of Governments and landowners as late as the end of the 1800s to suppress the language, culture and religion of the island.
		A little to the south, the hill to the east of the main road, Rueval (Ruabhal), is known as the Hill of the Miracles and in 1957 saw the erection of a 30ft statue of the Madonna and Child, "Our Lady of the Isles", on its slopes.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /southuist/southuist (852 words)

	South Uist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Uist (Scottish Gaelic: Uibhist a' Deas) is an island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.
		The animals are not native to the islands, having been introdued in the 1970s to reduce garden pests.
		The archaeological site of Cladh Hallan, the only site in Great Britain where prehistoric mummies have been found, is on South Uist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Uist (605 words)

	The Uists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Uists are the central group of islands in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
		North Uist and South Uist are linked by causeways running via Benbecula and Grimsay, and the entire group is sometimes known as the Uists.
		The main settlements in Uist are Dalabrog, Loch Baghasdail, An t-Ìochdar (all South Uist), Baile a' Mhanaich, Creag Ghoraidh (both Benbecula), Càirinis, Ceann a' Bhàigh, Paibeil, Solas and Loch nam Madadh (all North Uist).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uist (157 words)

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		The east side of South Uist is steep and hilly, pasturage for sheep but with little arable land: all this lies on the west side and it is there that most people live and Clanranald’s Castle of Ormaclett once stood.
		In South Uist, too, the herring was ‘King of the Sea’ and the salmon ‘King of the Fish’.
		South Uist is the only place I know of in the Highlands where snails were eaten: a soup was made from them by stewing them very slowly beside the fire and was considered very strengthening in convalescence and a cure for ills of the chest.
	members.lycos.co.uk /hebrides/SouthUistLegends.htm (10948 words)

	The Uists
		South Uist can be accessed from Oban and Barra by ferry and by road from Benbecula and North Uist.
		South Uist is the larger of the two islands and is also the only one with hills of significant height.
		South Uist is a birdwatcher's paradise where countless varieties of waterfowl, seabirds, waders, and moorland birds can be spotted.
	www.calmac.co.uk /uist (382 words)

	Scottish Accommodation Index - South Uist, Scotland UK
		To the south east of the island Kildonan Museum, at Milton, is an essential part of any visit and provides the background which allows you to put South Uist’s prehistoric past into perspective.
		On South Uist Flora MacDonald, a native of the island, came across Charles Stuart in hiding.
		South Uist’s first language is still Gaelic and the religion is still Catholic: people have hung on here against all odds.
	www.scottishaccommodationindex.com /uistsouthpics.htm (844 words)

	From the Outer Hebrides to Cape Breton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is one of the quirks of the history of the Western Isles that the islands of the Uists were divided between two branches of the MacDonalds, with North Uist belonging to the MacDonald of Sleat in Skye, and South Uist and Benbecula belonging to the MacDonalds of Clanranald.
		North Uist also had its massive emigration to Cape Breton, beginning rather later than the South Uist moves, and a Presbyterian community was built up in the south west of the island, especially around, Gabarus, Catalone and the Mira, with an off-shoot around Loch Lomond, in the highlands above the Bras d'Or.
		The earliest major emigration from North Uist was not until the 1820s, as there does not seem t have been the same religious and economic pressure to emigrate as there was in South Uist.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/canada/hebrides_breton.htm (2370 words)

	South Uist Machair - Special Area of Conservation - SAC
		South Uist in the Outer Hebrides contains oligo-mesotrophic waters of the machair loch type which derive the calcium content of their nutrient-poor waters from calcareous shell-sand.
		The South Uist machair supports a unique transition from oligotrophic lochs on peatland towards the centre of the island, through mixed oligotrophic and mesotrophic lochs where peat ‘flland’ meets machair, to eutrophic lochs over calcareous sand and brackish lochs on the west coast.
		The freshwater lochs within the South Uist machair are of diverse types, with a transition from oligotrophic waters situated on the peatlands to more nutrient-rich, calcareous lochs on shell-sand near the coast.
	www.jncc.gov.uk /protectedsites/sacselection/sac.asp?EUcode=UK0012713 (1048 words)

	Boston.com / Boston Globe Magazine
		South Uist (EWE-ist) is also the place that my great-great-great-grandfather left in 1825 for an uncertain future in the rocky forests of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
		A South Uist family was expected to harvest 3 to 4 tons of kelp a year, just to meet their rent as tenants.
		South Uist has not produced the connection I had sought, and neither has the local croft data I researched.
	cache.boston.com /globe/magazine/2-25/featurestory1.shtml (4346 words)

	South Uist & Eriskay transport, accommodation, sightseeing - Western Isles (Outer Hebrides) Scotland
		North Uist has a fascinating history, and a landscape scattered with historic sites, from Neolithic burial chambers and Iron Age forts, though medieval churches and battle-sites, to townships forged in the days of kelp trade, and the subsequent traumas of clearance and emigration.
		Of all the Western Isles, none has closer links with the turbulent history of Clan Donald than North Uist, and stories of their chiefs and battles are linked with sites all through the island, all set in a landscape which is one of the most varied and beautiful in the Hebrides.
		The Gatliffe Trust hostel at Howmore on South Uist has 13 beds and is open all year.
	www.scotland-info.co.uk /south-uist.htm (1577 words)

	Roots Hebrides - genealogy and ancestry in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
		As your folks initially came from North Uist, this made it almost certain they would be Protestant and a stay in South Uist before emigrating would not alter that.
		However, before that line acquired North Uist, there were at least two other MacDonald 'clanns' or families established there, one descended from Godfrey, Lord of Uist elder brother of the Ranald who is remembered in the name Clanranald, and known as Clan Gorrie; and the other from a somewhat later Murdoch.
		South Uist and Barra were by then in the same ownership but, of course they were historically quite separate, being Clanranald and MacNeil possessions respectively.
	www.rootshebrides.com /datastore/discussion/phorum-3.3.1a/read.php?f=2&i=21&t=21 (2116 words)

	North and South Uist : Regions in Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The population of North Uist is about 2,000, and the island is about 20km (12 miles) wide by 56km (35 miles) at its longest point.
		North Uist is served by a circular road, usually a single lane variety with passing places, and several feeder routes that branch east and west.
		Exploring the Island--The biggest village in South Uist is Lochboisdale, at the head of a deep-sea loch in the southeastern part of the island.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=2108&catID=2108010043 (1369 words)

	Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She was based, for her fieldwork on South Uist, where she lived for six years in the early thirties in an earth-floored croft with the sisters Peigi and Mairi Macrae.
		Her book, Folklore and Folksongs of South Uist, was described by the Times as “one of the classics of Hebridean scholarship”.
		As well as an introduction by Shaw into the life she was leading on South Uist, it includes proverbs and sayings, stories, cures, recipes for dying wool and more conventional recipes (mainly with oatmeal as the main ingredient).
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/folk_music/106296 (449 words)

	As South Uist prepares for another unforgiving winter, anger is mounting because safety measures and flood prevention ...
		As South Uist prepares for another unforgiving winter, anger is mounting because safety measures and flood prevention steps that were promised have not materialised.
		Dotted throughout the Iochdar district of South Uist are plaster representations of Mary confined in glass and stone cases: roadside shrines of a kind you won’t find elsewhere in the British Isles.
		At points, the landscape of South Uist is almost Dutch in appearance with narrow ribbons of road cutting across lochans to modern croft houses set against huge skies and an expansive ocean.
	www.sundayherald.com /52959 (2665 words)

	South Uist Cottages - Self catering accommodation in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland
		South Uist Cottages are spacious and well equipped self catering cottages that are situated in a quiet, peaceful location in South Uist, Western Isles.
		All down the west coast of South Uist are vistas that delight the eye - beaches, sand dunes coloured by the flowers of wild orchids, green grasslands salted by the Atlantic rain, and the restless rolling waves of the same ocean.
		The isles of Berneray, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist and Eriskay are connected by causeways and bridges and they provide a superb setting for a memorable holiday away from the hustle and bustle of modern life.
	www.southuist-cottages.com (221 words)

	Seann Taigh self catering rental cottage South Uist Island Scotland
		There is also South Uist Highland games which includes a variety of things such as dancing and piping.
		There are around 2000 lochs between South Uist, North Uist and Benbecula which have various types of trout.
		South Uist is about 25 miles long and six-seven miles wide with a scattered population of around 2,000.
	www.aboutscotland.com /southuist/seanntaigh.html (839 words)

	Uist Accommodation - B&B and Self-catering Accommodation on South Uist.
		Uist Accommodation - BandB and Self-catering Accommodation on South Uist.
		We are located in the heart of South Uist where the beautifully austere landscape, characterized by wind-swept beaches, rolling hills and numerous lochs evokes a sense of timelessness and rugged beauty.
		Our self-catering and B&B accommodation is situated at the heart of south Uist in a croft in the small township of Milton (see photo above).
	www.uistaccommodation.co.uk (321 words)

	Standing stones and ancient monuments - The Internet Guide to Scotland
		Dun Bharpa is a large well-preserved Neolithic chambered burial cairn 2.5 km south of the road between Craigston and Grean (map grid reference NF 671019).
		Further south on the hill called Unival (or Uneabhal in Gaelic) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and late Iron Age cellular house (map reference NF 800668).
		South of there can be found a standing stone and yet further south Dun Bayble.
	www.scotland-inverness.co.uk /stones.htm (3115 words)

	South Uist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		South Uist is reached by a causeway from Benbecula in the North and is now also linked by a similar causeway to Eriskay in the South.
		The main ferry terminal at the south of the island is at Lochboisdale and ferries sail from here to Oban.
		A number of fl houses (tigh dubh) are to be found in South Uist, some have been restored to full use.
	www.muirshiel.com /muirshiel/south_uist.htm (139 words)

	Historical perspective for South Uist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ist, South, an island and a parish of the Outer Hebrides, Inverness-shire.
		South Uist has regular steamer communication with Glasgow and with Loch Maddy, and has a post and telegraph office under Lochmaddy at Howmore.
		This parish is in the presbytery of Uist and synod of Glenelg; the living is worth £278.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/features/featurehistory1076.html (1085 words)

	Clan MacIntyre Clan Gathering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Their leaving South Uist was probably related to a religious upheaval which occurred there in 1770 after Alexander MacDonald of Boisdale, the Clanranald cadet who owned and administered South Uist, was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
		There are a number of people named Steele living in South Uist today and some informants suggest that it is possible that they originated in Ireland.
		Norman did follow Archie but did not bring the little boy with him and, as far as can be established, the parents saw their son for the last time on a little wharf in the shadows of the granite hills which brood over Lochboisdale.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/m/macintyre_capebreton.htm (1530 words)

	Overview of South Uist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the north the island is connected to Benbecula by the South Ford Causeway (1983).
		After the Norse occupation, South Uist was held by the MacDonalds of Clanranald until 1838 when Colonel Gordon of Cluny bought the island and initiated clearances to make way for sheep farming.
		The population of South Uist fell from a total of 5093 in 1841 to its present level of 2285.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/features/featurefirst1076.html (281 words)

	School of Celtic Studies - Gaelic words and expressions from South Uist and Eriskay, collected by Fr. Allan McDonald of ...
		After two years at Oban with Bishop Angus MacDonald he was appointed parish priest of Dalibrog in South Uist in 1884, which parish then comprised the southern third of South Uist and the Island of Eriskay.
		In 1884 South Uist was, as it still is, a Gaelic-speaking island, though it is now threatened with a great influx of English-speakers in connection with the proposed guided missile range.
		The basis of the Collection is the oral tradition of Uist and Eriskay (whose inhabitants originally came, around 1850, from the Beinn Mhór district of South Uist and various islands in Barra Sound) with allusions to Benbecula, Barra, and Mingulay.
	www.celt.dias.ie /publications/cat/e/e4-4.html (2526 words)

	Uist, North, and South Uist on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Magazines and Newspapers for: Uist, North, and South Uist or search in Pictures and Maps for Uist, North, and South Uist
		The culling fields; With Mexican hate mail and their traps, the hunters move in to rid North Uist of its hedgehog problem.
		I went to Uist (and all I got was this lousy hedgehog).(News)
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/U/Uist-N1or.asp (408 words)

	North Uist accommodation, sightseeing, transport - Western Isles (Outer Hebrides) Scotland
		This is the junction between the main loop road of North Uist and the road heading south to Benbecula and South Uist.
		Return to the main road heading south to Lochmaddy and if you spot the turn on the left-hand side of the road to Lochportain, then you might see the broch known as Dun Thorcuill (or Torcuil) (map reference NF 888737) which sits on an islet (with causeway) in Loch an Duin.
		On the main A865 a few miles south of Clachan, near Carinish (Cairinis in Gaelic) are the ruins of a 13th century church (Teampull na Trionaid), thought to have been founded by the daughter of the warrior Somerled.
	www.scotland-info.co.uk /north-uist.htm (2829 words)

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