Scolpaig Tower
Scolpaig Tower is also called Macleod’s Folly. Alasdair MacLeod the factor or estate manager of North Uist recruited a workforce of improvised islanders to build the Gothic structure in the middle of the Scolpaig Loch as famine relief work during the potato blight in 1836. Access is restricted by the stone causeway which is often flooded after a period of heavy rain. The distinctive two-storey octagonal tower has been raised in the middle of Loch Scolpaig using the stones from a prehistoric fort or crannog.