Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Flannan Isles Memorial

During our stay on Lewis we paid a visit to the memorial to the Flannan Island lightkeepers. Built by Seamus Crawford of Uig, it was dedicated on December 15, 2017.


The memorial is in Breasclete, a few hundred metres east of the pier used by the lightkeepers, and an equal distance west of their shore station. The memorial depicts a looming bronze wave sweeping towards a granite boulder topped by a sandstone lighthouse. An event in December of 1900 that killed all three lightkeepers.



I believe the Gaelic wording on the plaque reads something like:

We leave
To the protecting light
To stay the darkness of the night

Pslam 89.9: You rule over the surging sea
When its waves rise you still them

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