Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Illeray

Illeray, an island of North Uist parish, Outer Hebrides, Inverness-shire, adjacent to Balleshare island, and insulated from the SW side of North Uist island only at high water. It measures 1¾ by 1/3 mile, and has a soil partly sandy, partly black loam, yielding tolerable crops of barley and pasture for cattle. Pop., with that of Balleshare, (1861) 199, (1871) 246, (1881) 266.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "an island"   (ADL Feature Type: "islands")
Administrative units: North Uist Parish       Inverness Shire County

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