Editing St Kilda, Scotland (section)

=== Buildings on other islands ===
[[File:Dun, St Kilda.jpg|thumb|left| [[Dùn, St Kilda|Dùn]] from Ruival with [[Stac Levenish]] in the background at left]]
[[Dùn, St Kilda|Dùn]] means "fort", and there is but a single ruined wall of a structure said to have been built in the far-distant past by the [[Fir Bolg]].<ref>Maclean (1977) page 29.</ref> The only "habitation" is ''Sean Taigh'' (old house), a natural cavern sometimes used as a shelter by the St Kildans when they were tending the sheep or catching birds.<ref>Quine (2000) page 99.</ref> Soay has a primitive hut known as ''Taigh Dugan'' (Dugan's house). This is little more than an excavated hole under a massive stone with two crude walls on the sides. The story of its creation relates to two sheep-stealing brothers from [[Isle of Lewis|Lewis]] who came to St Kilda only to cause further trouble. Dugan was exiled to Soay, where he died; the other, called Fearchar Mòr, was sent to Stac an Armin, where he found life so intolerable he cast himself into the sea.<ref>Quine (2000) pages 99 and 146.</ref>

Boreray boasts the ''Cleitean MacPhàidein'', a "cleit village" of three small bothies used on a regular basis during fowling expeditions. Here too are the ruins of ''Taigh Stallar'' (the steward's house), which was similar to the Amazon's house in Gleann Mòr although somewhat larger, and which had six bed spaces. The local tradition was that it was built by the "Man of the Rocks", who led a rebellion against the landlord's steward.<ref>Maclean (1977) page 28.</ref> It may be an example of an [[Iron Age]] [[wheelhouse (archaeology)|wheelhouse]] and the associated remains of an agricultural field system were discovered in 2011.<ref>Fleming (2005) page 58.</ref><ref>[http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/news/evidence-of-ancient-settlement-found-on-boreray "Evidence of Ancient Settlement Found on Boreray"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015234129/http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/news/evidence-of-ancient-settlement-found-on-boreray |date=15 October 2011 }}. (16 June 2011) RCHAMS. Retrieved 19 June 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-13753643 "Prehistoric finds on remote St Kilda's Boreray isle"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619112728/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-13753643 |date=19 June 2011 }}. (17 June 2011) BBC News. Retrieved 19 June 2011.</ref> As a result of a smallpox outbreak on Hirta in 1724, three men and eight boys were marooned on Boreray until the following May.<ref>Maclean (1977) pages 48–9</ref> No fewer than 78 storage ''cleitean'' exist on [[Stac an Armin]] and a small [[bothy]]. A small bothy exists on the precipitous [[Stac Lee]] too, also used by fowlers.<ref>Quine (2000) pages 142 and 146.</ref>