Grimsay
Grimsay is a stepping stone for the carriageway through the Uists. Before 1960 people had to wade across from North Uist onto Grimsay and again over the channel to Benbecula.
Grimsay is a tiny island sandwiched on the east coast between North Uist and Benbecula. It links the two larger islands via causeways which runs across North Ford carrying the main Uist road. A narrow circular road offers an interesting four-mile route around the crofting and fishing community here.
Kallin Harbour is bursting to capacity with creel boats landing lobster and prawns mostly for export to Spain. Boats are usually crammed into the harbour which has recently been extended by three giant pre-fabricated concrete boxes, each weighting over 700 tonnes and 20 metre long, which were manufactered at the Ailsa Troon yard in Ayrshire.
They were towed by tugs to Grimsay and installed as part of a £ 3 million redevelopment. The 10 metre high boxes were erected onto seabed and linked together to create a new shelter for the busy working harbour.
Dun Bàn in Loch Hornaray is a round tower with thick walls which were originally about three metres high. . Four beehive cells lie withinthe structure. The causeway and stepping stones out to the tiny islet it sits upon is now underwater.
St Michael's Chapel 'Teampull Mhichael was built near to the shoreline. Ruins of its low walls and gable end remain. It is thought fishermen were buried in simple graves in its cemetry. It is said to have built by Lady Amie MacRory, wife of the John of Islay, the first Lord of the Isles. She erected the chapel for the benefit of travellers and fishermen using the port of Kallin which would date it around the late 1300s.