Fact · South Uist
Howmore has one of Scotland's biggest clusters of thatched houses
Howmore on South Uist has one of the largest collections of thatched buildings in Scotland, medieval chapel ruins that once housed a college of learning, and an 1858 church with its communion table in the middle of the room, one of very few in the country.
Tobha Mòr, Howmore, on the west side of South Uist, is a township of thatched houses, one of the largest such collections in Scotland, with a hostel in one of them. Beside it are the ruins of Teampull Mòr, St Mary's, and the other chapels of a medieval religious site said to have housed a college of learning; ancestors of the poet Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair and his cousin Flora MacDonald are buried there. The Church of Scotland church of 1858 is one of the few in Scotland arranged with a central communion table.
Sources / notes: Wikipedia: Howmore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howmore