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CANNA (ISLE)
Tarbet Bay with the Isle of Rum in the
distance - Photo: Dr. Julian ParenCCL
Shop-free Canna is owned by
the National Trust for Scotland and operated as a
working farm. The main harbour is linked at low
tide to nearby Sanday island. Both were bequeathed
to the National Trust for Scotland in 1981 by the
Gaelic scholar Dr John Lorne Campbell in 1981. He
lived on Canna and Canna House acts as the
repository of his Gaelic archive.
This remote ‘castaway’ island is famous for its
seabirds, including Manx shearwaters and puffins,
and its striking basalt pillars and soaring
cliffs. There are numerous ancient sites on the
island, include nine monuments of national
importance.
