Tuesday 6 January 2009

Spooky - even in sunlight!


The ruin of Gesto House stands among witchy trees on the shore of Gesto Bay, Loch Harport.

The house, built about 1760, was the former home of the Macleods of Gesto, who were  the oldest cadet branch of the Macleods of Dunvegan, with whom they became involved in a long-running dispute. The rift was cemented in the mid-19th century, when the tack of Gesto was transferred to two Borders sheepfarmers. The Macleods, who had settled here in c.1425, never returned to Gesto, but a descendant, Kenneth Macleod, got his own back by buying up extensive properties in the north of Skye when the Macleods had to sell them in the later 19th century to meet debts.

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