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Fact · North Uist

Boreray is an island with a single croft

Boreray is an island with a single croft
Photo Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0

Boreray, two kilometres north of North Uist, is an island with one croft on it. Not to be confused with the other Boreray, the sea-stack of St Kilda.

Boreray, Boraraigh, lies two kilometres north of North Uist in the Sound of Harris. Once home to a village, it now has a single croft, with its buildings in the north-east corner of the island. There are two Borerays in the Outer Hebrides. The other is the great gannet-covered rock of St Kilda, forty miles out into the Atlantic.

Sources / notes: Wikipedia: Boreray, North Uist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreray,_North_Uist

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