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Uig (Scottish Gaelic: Ùige) is a village at the head of Uig Bay on the west coast of the Trotternish peninsula on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. [1] In 2011 it had a population of 423. [ 2 ]
The Uig Tower is a round tower of two floors and was built in Norman style. The tower has narrow vertical slits instead of windows. The tower has narrow vertical slits instead of windows. The gaps resemble loopholes of a castle through which arrows could be fired on attackers, although it has no defensive function and was built purely as a show ...
Skye and the surrounding islands Bla Bheinn from Loch Slapin Waterfall on the River Rha between Staffin and Uig The vertical west face of the Basteir Tooth (a top next to Am Basteir) in the Cuillin, with Sgùrr nan Gillean in the background. At 1,656 km 2 (639 sq mi), Skye is the second-largest island in Scotland after Lewis and Harris.
The Hebridean Light Railway Company proposed to operate on the Scottish islands of Skye and Lewis. [1] The Skye line was to have connected the port of Isleornsay (for ferries from Mallaig on the Scottish mainland) and the port of Uig on the north-west coast of the island, from where ferries would have sailed to Stornoway on Lewis.
Snizort (Scottish Gaelic: Snìosort) is a civil parish in the north-eastern part of the Isle of Skye, [1] comprising the head of Loch Snizort and the western coast of Trotternish up to Uig, which is the largest settlement. [2]
Uig, Coll, a hamlet on the island of Coll, Argyll and Bute, Scotland; Uig, Duirinish, a hamlet near Totaig, on the Isle of Skye, Highland Scotland; Uig, Lewis, a civil parish on the western cost of the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland; Uig, Snizort, a village and ferry port on the Trotternish peninsula, Isle of Skye, Highland Scotland
Dun Skudiburgh is a prehistoric fort near Uig, Skye, Scotland. The site is on the west coast of Trotternish , on a steep-sided knoll about 60 metres (200 ft) above the shore of Loch Snizort . [ 1 ]
Uig is a hamlet 14 miles (23 km) south west of Uig in Snizort, on the eastern shore of Loch Dunvegan, in the civil parish of Duirinish, on the Isle of Skye, in the council area of Highland, Scotland. [1]