Bragar
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 The whalebone arch | |
  Bragar Location within theOuter Hebrides | |
| Language | Scottish Gaelic English |
| OS grid reference | NB288478 |
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| Council area | |
| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ISLE OF LEWIS |
| Postcode district | HS2 |
| Dialling code | 01851 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
| 58°20′06″N6°38′02″W / 58.335°N 6.634°W /58.335; -6.634 | |
Bragar (Scottish Gaelic:Bhràdhagair,pronounced[braːgər]) is a village on thewest side of theIsle of Lewis in theOuter Hebrides, Scotland, 14 miles (23 kilometres) from the island's only town,Stornoway. Bragar is within the parish ofBarvas,[1] and is situated on theA858 betweenCarloway and Barvas.[citation needed]
Residents are mainlyGaelic speaking, and many work ascrofters.
The village's best-known landmark is a whalebone arch, made in 1921 from the jawbone of an 80-foot-long (24-metre)blue whale which was beached on the shore the year before. The arch is located at the Lakeview residence, the home of Murdo Morrison (1867–1950). Bragar also has a post office, a war memorial, and a school.
A ruinedIron Agebroch, Dun Bragar, stands in Loch an Dùin in South Bragar,[2] 80 metres from the road and connected to the lochside by a causeway. In the mid-20th century local people took away many of its stones, and the structure is no longer safe.
The remains of a chapel, Teampall Eòin (the Temple of John the Baptist), built in the 15th century or earlier,[3] lie inside a walled compound. This also contains a cemetery, now known as Cill Sgàire (Zechariah's cemetery) after Zechariah MacAulay who fell in a skirmish between theMacAulays of Uig and theMorrisons of Ness.
It is estimated that 2000 people are buried within the graveyard.[4]
Roderick Morison, the retained harper toClan MacLeod atDunvegan Castle, was born in Bragar in 1656.[5] He wrote Òran Mòr MhicLeòid.
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