Illeray

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Illeray ( Gaelic : Iolaraigh ) is a former Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides . It was on the North Ford Strait between North Uist in the east and Baleshare in the west. At low tide, North Uist could be reached on foot. The soil is described as sandy and loamy and was used for growing barley or as pasture.

Over the years the waterway between Illeray and Baleshare silted up and the two islands grew together. Today Illeray forms part of the northern Baleshare. Although Francis H. Groome still describes Illeray as separate islands in the 1880s, the 1861 census summarized both islands, treating them separately in the 1851 and 1841 censuses. At that time, 199 people lived in 35 houses on both islands.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illeray. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 4: (Har - Lib). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1885, p. 282.
  2. ↑ Illeray (Iolaraigh). In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .
  3. ^ Scotland Census Office: Census of Scotland – 1861. Population Tables and Report. Number of the Inhabitants, Families, Children at School, Houses, and Rooms with Windows, in the Civil Counties and Parishes, Registration Counties and Districts, Burghs, Towns, Villages, and Islands of Scotland: Also a Classification of Families according to their Sizes , the Number of Persons they Contain, and their relative House Accommodation. Murray and Gibb for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Edinburgh 1862, p. 6 , p. 19 .

Coordinates: 57 ° 32'35 "  N , 7 ° 22'24"  W.