Stones in a Haystack

NB: I'm fully aware this kind of conjecture is largely pointless without any hard facts to back it up.  So if you're not into that kind of thing then sorry! But I find it fun, and it helps build my own excitement about a stone trip, not to mention means I'm more prepared when I arrive and start looking for these stones. Flag is pretty much the location of An Sithean, just north of the road heading south out of Broadford. Co-ordinates from  megalithic website   The above series of screenshots were taken from the "Streetview" function of Google maps at the An Sithean location. Starting from the west (side), the image series continues as if one is travelling currently moving east, heading towards Broadford. I've made the following "assumptions" here: 1. The lifting stones of An Sithean still exist.    - They've not been lost, destroyed, damaged by road construction, etc 2. They're on the north side of the road.    - P...

  The Isle of Skye Part Four - Fairies I'm sure this isn't the kind of fairies Gaelic folklore talks about Today we're going to take a look at An Sithean on Skye, using things from Peter Martin and hoping to find further information to add to this, or at least some sort of supporting information in our ongoing look at the stone lifting culture on the Misty Isle. Under the contents page of Twixt the Stones and Turf it is listed as "The Stones of An Sithean". "Place Names of Skye" explains further; sith being both a hill and fairy, with sithich being a male fairy and ban-sith a female fairy. He goes onto describe the female fairies of Skye were always dressed in green, males in a lichen dyed red and brown. Below is a description of the place from "Skye: The Island it's Legends". "Aant Sithe, a green mound close to the roadway on the right-hand side. This, as its name implies, is a fairy place. On clear moonlight n...

  Skye Part Three Having already covered Clach Mhor Mhic Crimmion and the potential for a stone at Dunscaith castle, it's time to move onto the rest of Skye - much like North Uist, we've got quite a few stones on this relativley small place, I'll insert the list from the content's of Peter Martin's book for you once again for a refresher.  Add Dunscaith to this list, and potentially more soon So left there is An Sithean, Clach Chraboithbh I'c Thearlaich, Ultach Gillean a' Bealaich and Clach Mhor na Saothraich. This post looks at the second and third from that list. A few of these have really trumped me thus far I'll be honest, so I'll share what I have here and there and when hopefully I find more we can add to the knowledge. We'll start with the most and work our way down the knowledge list. Ultach Gillean a' Bealaich , or Lift of the Martin's Boys, first made it's appearance in the seminal text "Of Stones and St...