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The island is separated from the mainland by the Inner Sound and from Skye by the Sound of Raasay, about 12 miles long and 2 miles wide.
Brochel Castle ruins are on the east coast and the views from the summit of Dun Caan Hill rising to 1,456ft are quite spectacular.
There is a tradition that on every recurring Friday for a whole year one of MacLeod's sisters composed and sang a lament to his memory. At one time there was a castle said to have been able to accommodate 80 people. It was destroyed by fire by the Hanoverians after 1745 as MacLeod of Raasay had sided with the Jacobites.
Arnish - (Norse) eagle's point Inverarish - Norse (dwelling at the river mouth) Oskaig - Norse (mouth of river or outlet) Raasay - Norse (island or roe ridge)
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- Landmark