Barra's Kisimul Castle requires safety and conservation work before it can reopen The castle at Castlebay has been closed since the start of the Covid pandemic Dating from the 15th Century, it was ...

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THE future of one Scotland’s most iconic medieval castles is to be secured in a major conservation scheme agreed between Historic Scotland and a Highland Clan Chief. Kisimul Castle, perched on a rocky ...

His Barra inheritance was complex. In 1838 the 41st clan chief, General Roderick MacNeil, facing bankruptcy, had sold Barra to a Colonel Gordon of Cluny, together with the family's crumbling medieval ...

A clan chief who taught a young Barack Obama has died. Iain MacNeil, 80, was chief of Clan MacNeil of Barra. He was a popular figure on the island and put the family estate there into public ownership ...

An island's historic castle cannot be reopened to the public until challenging safety and conservation issues are resolved, Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has said. The Isle of Barra's Kisimul ...