Skigersta is a village in the south east of Ness, Outer Hebrides in Scotland

Scotland

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. There is a quay built in 1901 and a shingle beach. Skigersta was a location for fish curing in the 19th century with the ruins of the curing bothies still visible next to the river and a man made channel in the shoreline allowing easier access for the boats. The area of Skigersta near the shore is called 'Lachamore'.

A cargo ship the Dun Alasdair heading to America was wrecked of Skigersta in 1885 in fog.

To the south of Skigersta the moor begins and the road turns into a peat track, there are sheilings on the moor at Cuisiadar and if you follow the moor further south you reach the road at New Tolsta

External links

• Ness Historical Society page on Skigersta (via Archive.org)
• Images taken around Skigersta, from geograph.co.uk