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I hope to be adding some sites for Skye in the near future. There surely are monuments there. I'm going to have to speak to Holy, though, because the only monuments this site has for Skye (the Vatten Cairns) aren't included under the Hebrides. I reckon Skye could do with a group of sites of its own - something like the Callanish & its environs grouping. I've never been to Skye but it fascinates me because its folklore is so complete. Its dripping with the stuff, and everywhere you go has some sort of folklore attached to it. Its so complete that you could do an aborigine song-line style thang wherever you walked on the island. It just goes to show how much has been forgotten elsewhere.

THE book for Skye's folklore is <i>Skye: The Island & Its Legends</i> by Otta F. Swire. I'm on reading it at the moment and its amazing - the author's family have lived on Skye for generations, and she had access to stories told to her by her great-grandmother that have not been recorded elsewhere. A living (or recently deceased? not sure...) oral tradition.