- Bragar
Bragar is a crofting township or village on the West Side of the Isle of Lewis in
Scotland , neighboured byShawbost to the south andArnol to the north. Bragar features a distinctive whale-bone arch as well as a school, post office, war memorial and a shore. The whale bones were taken from the carcass of aBlue whale which washed ashore near Bragar in 1920.Rory 'Dall' Morison, (Roderick Morison) an Clarsair Dall, Harpist to the MacLeods of Dunvegan, was born in Bragar in 1656. He was the composer of Oran Mor Mhicleoid.
Bragar has an extremely old cemetry with a pre-medieval chapel (Teampull Eoin) the Temple of John the Baptist. The cemetery today is known as Cill Sgaire, (Zechariah's cemetery) - in recognition of a Zechariah MacAulay from Uig who fell in a skirmish between the MacAulays of Uig and the
Morrisons of Ness .Bragar also has a ruined
broch on Loch an Dun. In the early twentieth century many of its channels were useable but the broch was plundered for stones by the locals in the mid twentieth century and is no longer safe.External links
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* [http://www.ceats.org.uk/Whalebone.htm West Side Historical Society - History of the Whalebone Arch]
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