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Status: Historical Village; Abandoned
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History
Archeologists have found remains here dating back to tombs from the Neolithic Era; that's 5,000+ years ago. Humans have inhabited this area since the medieval period.
The stone cottages – no mortar between the stone just stacked stones – number approximately 80-100 and are built along a mile long stretch. They have not been occupied year-round since the famine of 1845.
However, until the 1940’s the village was used as a booley village. Meaning during the summer boys and girls in their teenage years brought cattle to graze here and lived in the cottages.
The village has been completely deserted since the since then.
Paranormal Activity
The deserted village is still used by people camping on the island although numbers have dropped with the many stories of paranormal activity after dark.
Apparitions of the former residents are seen walking through the abandoned cottages. Shadow figures are even more common with one story saying a shadow picked up a dog and threw it at a group of girls.
Disembodied voices are heard including full conversations. Objects are known to disappear and reappear in different places as well as move on their own. Phantom footsteps have been heard as well as light anomalies; electrical disturbances; touches by unseen entities and feelings of being watched by something unseen.