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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IAIN MacNeil, who has died aged 80, was an eminent American law school professor who taught US president Barack Obama, but was better known in Scotland as the 46th Chief of Clan MacNeil. He was ...

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 ...

He was a 'tyrannical' clan chief whose deeds, some argue, went unnoticed given the excesses of those landowners who came after him. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can ...