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View of Scolpaig Tower

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    October 19, 2019

    Built around 1830, Scolpaig Tower is a unique stone pillar towering on an Iron Age dun on an islet in Loch Scolpaig. It was built by Dr Alexander MacLeod to provide employment and help reduce famine. Today, the tower provides a nesting home for birds and is one of the most well-known monuments in this area of Scotland.

      July 22, 2017

      A tower in the middle of nowhere! Doctor MacLeod had it built so that the local peasantry in the eighteenth century had a paid job during the hard times.

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