Early 1700s steading at Nunton on the site of a medieval nunnery, restored by the Uist Preservation Trust in 1999.
The steading at Nunton was built in the early 1700s for the Clanranald tack at Nunton House, on ground that had been part of a nunnery from around 1300, which is where the Gaelic name of the township, Baile nan Cailleach, comes from. The Uist Preservation Trust had the buildings restored by Simpson and Brown in 1999 and for years they housed a craft centre and tearoom.
Nunton House itself, next door, is where Flora MacDonald dressed Bonnie Prince Charlie as her maid Betty Burke before the crossing to Skye in June 1746.
Photo: Vanhercke Christiaan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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