27011: Donald Cam’s Stack, Uig, Lewis

Stac Dhomhnaill Chaim

Stac Dhomhnaill Chaim, located on a rough stretch of coast near Mangersta beach, is reputed to have been occupied by Domhnall Cam (Donald) Macaulay, the notorious renegade. A high pillar of rock completely surrounded by sea, it provided him with an ideal natural defence from his enemies. It is said that his daughter used to walk daily from Crowlista each morning to milk a cow, unknown to its owner, and then carry two pails of milk down the sea cliff and up to her father on the stack without ever spilling a drop.

See also the archaeological record.