Beinn na Cailleach

Beinn na Cailleach

Beinn na Cailleach (732 metres), near Broadford, Isle of Skye, is one of the Red Hills, or Red "Cuillin". Its name is translated into English as 'Hill of the Old Woman'.

The walk to the summit, on which there is reputedly buried either a Norwegian princess or 'a gigantic woman in the days of Fingal,' [Pennant, Thomas. "A Tour in Scotland"] is straightforward but strenuous. Thomas Pennant climbed the hill while staying with Mackinnon of Corriechatachan (or Corry); Samuel Johnson and James Boswell did not. [Johnson, Samuel. "A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland"]

ee also

*Cailleach

References

External links

* [http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/smcj/smcj029/smcj02901.htm Early descriptions of Skye] from the [http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/smcj/smcj029/index.html Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal Volume 5 Number 5]


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