The Quirang Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire Scotland. SCO 6621
The Quirang is another Norse placename, and it is said that during times of danger, clans could hide 4,000 head of cattle in the range of rock pillars there. At the Quirang in Staffin, we are reckoned to have the fastest landslip in the British Isles. The Quirang differs from Bodach an Stòr in this respect since the landslipage north of the Quirang is ongoing to this day. Extending from Meall nan Suireamach on the east to the coast of Staffin bay, this expanse of land and rocks is believed to have moved a distance of 2,000 metres since its creation. Visible symptoms of the landslip may be seen at Flodigarry where the road gets dislocated every number of years, while older generations remember planting potatoes where the sea has now engulfed the fields. On a smaller scale, the Uig landslip has created Baile nan cnoc, the place of “the fairy hills”, on the west of the Trotternish peninsula.
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Location: Quirang, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, Highland Region, Scotland.
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
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