Little Bernera

Little Bernera is a little island arranged off the west shoreline of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Little Bernera lies between the ocean lochs of West and East Loch Roag, promptly toward the north of Great Bernera. The island ascends to a stature of 42 meters and has a zone of 138 ha. The island has proof of nonstop settlement for a considerable length of time outstandingly in the remaining parts of previous residences and houses of prayer. The last inhabitants were persuasively removed in 1825 when the island was transformed into a satellite of Linshader cultivate. Following the freedom of the island the main livable working as noted on the principal version of the Ordnance Survey was the slated fish relieving house.

The island additionally contained a school set up by the SSPCK. A couple of hundreds of years back, the island was where individuals of Carloway were covered, before a burial ground was worked in that town. Today, tombstones can even now be seen on the island, yet are starting to vanish into the ground. At Traigh a teampaill, there is the destroyed sanctuary of St Michael and a contiguous burial ground. The island is likewise the site of the previous house of prayer of St Dondans of which no follow remains yet is by and large accepted to be sited in the specific north-west close Mol Mor.