FLORA MACDONALD'S HOME The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), [Sunday], [September 01, 1895] Next autumn will be afforded for sale the territorial domain of Kilmuir, in the north of Skye, a property wherein are situated Monkstadt., Kingsburg, St. Columba's Lock, Kilbride, Floddigarry and other places that form the scene of Flora MacDonald's herois story, and of nearly all her married life, as well as of her grave. Kilmuir, says the builder, covers 46,000 acres of the northern portion of Trotternish. Known as the "grannary of Skye." It contains the largest continuous tract of arable land in that island. With a seaboard of about thirty-five miles, its rugged coast presents many fine speciments of basaltic formation, especially south of the dismantled Dunturim castle-a stronghold of the clan Donald, built in the twelth century over a ruined viking fort-and around Loch Staffin, near Gluraing, whose verdant plateau of singular beauty lies within a ring of columnar masses of basalt rock, rising in lofty and for the most part inaccessible peaks. Scattered about are numerous Culdee cells, and the ancient earthworks; on Fladdachuain island is the site of a Druidical temple. At Kilbride, close by Monkstadt and Kilmuir Kirk, Charles Edward (disguised as "Betty Burke"), Flora MacDonald, more correctly Fhionnaghall MacDhomhnill and Neil MacEachinn landed, Saturday afternoon, June 28, 1746, after their perilous voyage of fifteen hours in an open boat across Little Minch, from Rossinish, in Benbecula of the western isles, where, whilst visiting Nunton, the Clanranalds seat, she, on the prebious day, had first met the prince.
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