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A village in a prosperous farming area known as the ‘garden of Skye’.
A couple of miles off the coast road to Broadford, a narrow by-road climbs northwest over a watershed giving magnificent views of the Coolins before descending to Tarskavaig Bay on Loch Eishort, facing Straithaird Point.
Armadale - Icel (arm of the sea). The MacDonalds - Lords of the Isles, successively inhabited Islay, Mull ans Skye. Their seat in Skye until 1730 was Duntulm Castle in Trotternish which they left due to its deteriorating state and moved to Monkstadt House nearby. Early in the 19th century they built a new castle in Armadale where the clan chief took residence for over a century. What remains of the castle now houses the Clan Donald Centre.
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