Clach Oscar

Nearest town:
Kyle of Lochalsh (21km ENE)
OS reference:
NG564226
OS sheet:
32
Latitude:
57° 13' 45.07 N
Longitude:
6° 2' 11.87 W
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Image of Clach Oscar (Standing Stone / Menhir) by GLADMAN

Sunnier version of thelonious’s image from Glas-Bheinn Mhor – for balance, you understand. Well, Skye isn’t always misty. Clach Oscar stands a little beyond Loch na Sguabaidh in appropriately epic surroundings.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 19, 2018
Image of Clach Oscar (Standing Stone / Menhir) by megmiller

Clach Oscar at the edge of Loch Sguabaidh, Torrin, Skye.

Image credit: Meg Miller
megmiller
megmiller Jan 18, 2015

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Clach Oscar

C
CARL Aug 27, 2013

Visited 30.7.13

Directions:
From Torrin take the B8083 west. After about 3 miles the road bends around the top of the loch. There is a large area you can park. From the parking area follow the ‘path’ north towards Loch na Sguabaidh – a stream will be on your left. Within a few minutes you will see Clach Oscar directly in front of you. Can’t miss it.

Clach Oscar is a large erratic approximately 1m square, covered in lichen and moss.
It appears that the 3 large pieces were originally all part of the same stone?

The stone is certainly worth visiting for the walk and views which are fantastic.
When the weather is kind (as it is today) this is an unbelievably scenic place to visit.

Folklore

Clach Oscar
Standing Stone / Menhir
TomBo
TomBo Jun 28, 2004

“This great stone commemorates one of the Fienne giants, Oscar, that illustrious one ‘whose banner never went a foot back until the grey earth trembled’. He is reputed to have flung the stone there fom a neighbouring hilltop when suffering from high spirits.”

- Otta F. Swire, Skye: The Island and its Legends, 1961, p. 223.

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megmiller
megmiller
Jan 2015

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